44:019:015 And the evil spirit answered and said,
Jesus I know, and Paul
I
know; but who are ye?
44:019:016 And the man in whom the evil spirit was
leaped on them, and
overcame
them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled
out
of that house naked and wounded.
44:019:017 And this was known to all the Jews and
Greeks also dwelling at
Ephesus;
and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord
Jesus
was magnified.
44:019:018 And many that believed came, and confessed,
and shewed their
deeds.
44:019:019 Many of them also which used curious arts
brought their books
together,
and burned them before all men: and they counted
the
price
of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
44:019:020 So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.
44:019:021 After these things were ended, Paul purposed
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.
44:019:022 So he sent into Macedonia two of them that
ministered unto
him,
Timotheus and Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia
for
a
season.
44:019:023 And the same time there arose no small stir about that way.
44:019:024 For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith,
which made
silver
shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the
craftsmen;
44:019:025 Whom he called together with the workmen
of like occupation,
and
said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our
wealth.
44:019:026 Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone
at Ephesus, but
almost
throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and
turned
away much people, saying that they be no gods, which
are
made with hands:
44:019:027 So that not only this our craft is in danger
to be set at
nought;
but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana
should
be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed,
whom
all Asia and the world worshippeth.
44:019:028 And when they heard these sayings, they
were full of wrath,
and
cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
44:019:029 And the whole city was filled with confusion:
and having
caught
Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul’s
companions
in travel, they rushed with one accord into the
theatre.
44:019:030 And when Paul would have entered in unto
the people, the
disciples
suffered him not.
44:019:031 And certain of the chief of Asia, which
were his friends, sent
unto
him, desiring him that he would not adventure himself
into
the theatre.


