²¹Now when these things were completed, Paul resolved in the Spirit to go to Jerusalem, passing through Macedonia and Achaia, saying, “After I have been there, it is necessary for me to see Rome also.” ²²So after^* sending two of those who were assisting him, Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia, he himself stayed some time in Asia.^j

²³Now there happened at that time no little disturbance concerning the Way. ²⁴For someone named^k Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver replicas of the temple of Artemis, was bringing no little business to the craftsmen. ²⁵These^l he gathered together, and the workers occupied with such things, and^* said, “Men, you know that from this business we get our prosperity,^m ²⁶and you see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost all of Asiaⁿ this man Paul has persuaded and^* turned away a large crowd by^* saying that the gods made by hands are not gods. ²⁷So not only is there a danger this line of business of ours will come into disrepute, but also the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be regarded as nothing—and she is about to be brought down even from her grandeur, she whom the whole of Asia^o and the entire world worship!”

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Footnotes

*Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“sending”) which is understood as temporal
jA reference to the Roman province of Asia (modern Asia Minor)
kLiterally “by name”
lLiterally “whom”
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“gathered together”) has been translated as a finite verb
mLiterally “prosperity is to us”
nA reference to the Roman province of Asia (modern Asia Minor)
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“has persuaded”) has been translated as a finite verb
*Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“saying”) which is understood as means
oA reference to the Roman province of Asia (modern Asia Minor)