Acts 19:21–27

²¹And when these things were fulfilled, Paul purposed in his spirit to go to Jerusalem, passing through Macedonia and Achaia, saying, After I have been there I must see Rome also. ²²And having sent into Macedonia two of those ministering to him, Timotheus and Erastus, he remained himself awhile in Asia. ²³And there took place at that time no small disturbance about the way. ²⁴For a certain man by name Demetrius, a silver-beater, making silver temples of Artemis, brought no small gain to the artisans; ²⁵whom having brought together, and those who wrought in such things, he said, Men, ye know that our well-living arises from this work, ²⁶and ye see and hear that this Paul has persuaded and turned away a great crowd, not only of Ephesus, but almost of all Asia, saying that they are no gods which are made with hands. ²⁷Now not only there is danger for us that our business come into discredit, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis be counted for nothing, and that her greatness should be destroyed whom the whole of Asia and the world reveres.