Acts 19:19–27
19Many of those who practiced magical arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. They counted their price, and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver.↗
20So the word of the Lord was growing and becoming mighty.↗
21Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the Spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”↗
22Having sent into Macedonia two of those who served him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.↗
23About that time there arose no small disturbance concerning the Way.↗
24For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen,↗
25whom he gathered together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, “Sirs, you know that by this business we have our wealth.↗
26You see and hear that not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods that are made with hands.↗
27Not only is there danger that this our trade come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be counted as nothing and her majesty destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worships.”↗
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