At this their anger boiled, and they began shouting,“ Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

众人听见，就怒气填胸，喊着说：“大哉，以弗所人的亚底米啊！”

众人听见，就怒气冲冲，喊着说：“大哉，以弗所人的亚底米！”

众人听见，就怒气冲冲，喊着说：“大哉，以弗所人的亚底米！”

众人听后，怒气填胸，高声喊叫：“以弗所人的亚底米女神真伟大！”

他们听了，怒气冲冲喊着说：“以弗所人的女神，伟大的亚底米啊！”

众人听了，就满腔怒火，喊叫说：“以弗所人伟大的阿蒂米丝！”

眾人聽見，就怒氣填胸，喊着說：「大哉，以弗所人的亞底米啊！」

眾人聽見，就怒氣沖沖，喊着說：「大哉，以弗所人的亞底米！」

眾人聽見，就怒氣沖沖，喊着說：「大哉，以弗所人的亞底米！」

眾人聽後，怒氣填胸，高聲喊叫：「以弗所人的亞底米女神真偉大！」

他們聽了，怒氣沖沖喊著說：“以弗所人的女神，偉大的亞底米啊！”

他們聽見，就滿心暴怒，喊着說：『偉大呀，以弗所人的亞底米！』

眾人聽了，就滿腔怒火，喊叫說：「以弗所人偉大的阿蒂米絲！」

眾聞之、怒甚、呼曰、大哉、以弗所人之亞底米也、

眾聞此、怒甚、呼曰、大哉、以弗所人之亞氐米也、

眾聞此大怒、呼曰、大哉以弗所人之亞底米也、

眾聞之、憤甚、咆哮曰：『大哉依法所人之諦雅納！』

When they heard this, they were furious and began shouting:“ Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

When they heard this, they became very angry. They began shouting,“ Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

When they heard this they were enraged and were crying out,“ Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

When they had heard this, they were filled with rage and began to cry out,“ Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

When they heard this and were filled with rage, they began shouting, saying,“ Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

Now when they heard this, they were full of wrath and cried out, saying,“ Great is Diana of the Ephesians!”

And when they heard this they were filled with wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.

And when they heard[ these sayings], they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great[ is] Diana of the Ephesians.

When they heard this they became enraged and began to shout,“ Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

When they heard this they were filled with anger, and cried out, saying,“ Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

They worshiped the dragon for giving the beast such power, and they also worshiped the beast.“ Who is as great as the beast?” they exclaimed.“ Who is able to fight against him?”

The kings of the earth prepare for battle; the rulers plot together against the Lord and against his anointed one.

yelling,“ Men of Israel, help us! This is the man who preaches against our people everywhere and tells everybody to disobey the Jewish laws. He speaks against the Temple— and even defiles this holy place by bringing in Gentiles.”( For earlier that day they had seen him in the city with Trophimus, a Gentile from Ephesus, and they assumed Paul had taken him into the Temple.)The whole city was rocked by these accusations, and a great riot followed. Paul was grabbed and dragged out of the Temple, and immediately the gates were closed behind him.As they were trying to kill him, word reached the commander of the Roman regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

The lands beyond the sea watch in fear. Remote lands tremble and mobilize for war.The idol makers encourage one another, saying to each other,“ Be strong!”The carver encourages the goldsmith, and the molder helps at the anvil.“ Good,” they say.“ It’s coming along fine.” Carefully they join the parts together, then fasten the thing in place so it won’t fall over.

They will all agree to give him their power and authority.

Her masters’ hopes of wealth were now shattered, so they grabbed Paul and Silas and dragged them before the authorities at the marketplace.“ The whole city is in an uproar because of these Jews!” they shouted to the city officials.“ They are teaching customs that are illegal for us Romans to practice.”A mob quickly formed against Paul and Silas, and the city officials ordered them stripped and beaten with wooden rods.They were severely beaten, and then they were thrown into prison. The jailer was ordered to make sure they didn’t escape.So the jailer put them into the inner dungeon and clamped their feet in the stocks.

A drought will strike her water supply, causing it to dry up. And why? Because the whole land is filled with idols, and the people are madly in love with them.

So they prepared one of the bulls and placed it on the altar. Then they called on the name of Baal from morning until noontime, shouting,“ O Baal, answer us!” But there was no reply of any kind. Then they danced, hobbling around the altar they had made.About noontime Elijah began mocking them.“ You’ll have to shout louder,” he scoffed,“ for surely he is a god! Perhaps he is daydreaming, or is relieving himself. Or maybe he is away on a trip, or is asleep and needs to be wakened!”So they shouted louder, and following their normal custom, they cut themselves with knives and swords until the blood gushed out.They raved all afternoon until the time of the evening sacrifice, but still there was no sound, no reply, no response.

Therefore, rejoice, O heavens! And you who live in the heavens, rejoice! But terror will come on the earth and the sea, for the devil has come down to you in great anger, knowing that he has little time.”

But when the crowd realized he was a Jew, they started shouting again and kept it up for about two hours:“ Great is Artemis of the Ephesians! Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”At last the mayor was able to quiet them down enough to speak.“ Citizens of Ephesus,” he said.“ Everyone knows that Ephesus is the official guardian of the temple of the great Artemis, whose image fell down to us from heaven.

But when the citizens of Ashdod went to see it the next morning, Dagon had fallen with his face to the ground in front of the Ark of the Lord! So they took Dagon and put him in his place again.But the next morning the same thing happened— Dagon had fallen face down before the Ark of the Lord again. This time his head and hands had broken off and were lying in the doorway. Only the trunk of his body was left intact.That is why to this day neither the priests of Dagon nor anyone who enters the temple of Dagon in Ashdod will step on its threshold.

The Jewish leaders were infuriated by Stephen’s accusation, and they shook their fists at him in rage.

They stopped first at the port of Ephesus, where Paul left the others behind. While he was there, he went to the synagogue to reason with the Jews.