ThensaidPaul, Johnverilybaptizedwith the baptism of repentance, sayingunto the people, thattheyshouldbelieve on him whichshouldcomeafter him, that is, on ChristJesus.
But whendiverswerehardened, and believed not, but spakeevil of that way before the multitude, he departedfromthem, and separated the disciples, disputingdaily in the school of one Tyrannus.
Thencertain of the vagabondJews, exorcists, tookuponthem to calloverthemwhich had evilspirits the name of the LordJesus, saying, We adjure you by JesuswhomPaulpreacheth.
Many of themalsowhichusedcuriousartsbroughttheirbookstogether, and burnedthembefore all men: and theycounted the price of them, and found it fiftythousandpieces of silver.
Afterthesethingswereended, Paulpurposed in the spirit, when he had passedthroughMacedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I havebeenthere, I mustalso see Rome.
Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almostthroughout all Asia, thisPaulhathpersuaded and turnedawaymuchpeople, sayingthatthey be no gods, which are madewithhands:
So that not onlythis our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but alsothat the temple of the greatgoddessDianashould be despised, and her magnificenceshould be destroyed, whom all Asia and the worldworshippeth.
And the wholecity was filledwithconfusion: and havingcaughtGaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul’scompanions in travel, theyrushedwith one accordinto the theatre.
And theydrewAlexander out of the multitude, the Jewsputting him forward. And Alexanderbeckonedwith the hand, and wouldhavemade his defenceunto the people.
And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is therethatknoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the greatgoddessDiana, and of the imagewhichfelldownfromJupiter?
Wherefore if Demetrius, and the craftsmenwhich are with him, have a matteragainst any man, the law is open, and there are deputies: let themimplead one another.