<vn='1'><sn="1161">And</s> it came to <sn="1096">pass</s>, that, while <sn="625">Apollos</s><sn="1511">was</s><sn="1722">at</s><sn="2882">Corinth</s>, <sn="3972">Paul</s> having passed <sn="1330">through</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="510">upper</s><sn="3313">coasts</s><sn="2064">came</s><sn="1519">to</s><sn="2181">Ephesus</s>: <sn="2532">and</s><sn="2147">finding</s><sn="5100">certain</s><sn="3101">disciples</s>, </v>
<vn='2'>He <sn="2036">said</s><sn="4314">unto</s><sn="846">them</s>, <sn="*1487">Have</s> ye <sn="2983">received</s> the <sn="40">Holy</s><sn="4151">Ghost</s> since ye <sn="4100">believed</s>? <sn="1161">And</s><sn="3588">they</s><sn="2036">said</s><sn="4314">unto</s><sn="846">him</s>, We have not so much <sn="235 3761">as</s><sn="191">heard</s><sn="1487">whether</s> there <sn="2076">be</s> any <sn="40">Holy</s><sn="4151">Ghost</s>. </v>
<vn='3'><sn="5037">And</s> he <sn="2036">said</s><sn="4314">unto</s><sn="846">them</s>, <sn="1519">Unto</s><sn="5101">what</s><sn="3767">then</s> were ye <sn="907">baptized</s>? <sn="1161">And</s><sn="3588">they</s><sn="2036">said</s>, <sn="1519">Unto</s><sn="2491">John</s> 's <sn="908">baptism</s>. </v>
<vn='4'><sn="1161">Then</s><sn="2036">said</s><sn="3972">Paul</s>, <sn="2491">John</s><sn="3303">verily</s><sn="907">baptized</s> with the <sn="908">baptism</s> of <sn="3341">repentance</s>, <sn="3004">saying</s> unto <sn="3588">the</s><sn="2992">people</s>, <sn="2443">that</s> they should <sn="4100">believe</s><sn="1519">on</s> him which should <sn="2064">come</s><sn="3326">after</s><sn="846">him</s>, that <sn="5123">is</s>, <sn="1519">on</s><sn="5547">Christ</s><sn="2424">Jesus</s>. </v>
<vn='5'><sn="1161">When</s> they <sn="191">heard</s> this, they were <sn="907">baptized</s><sn="1519">in</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="3686">name</s> of <sn="3588">the</s><sn="2962">Lord</s><sn="2424">Jesus</s>. </v>
<vn='6'><sn="2532">And</s> when <sn="3972">Paul</s> had <sn="2007">laid</s> his <sn="5495">hands</s> upon <sn="846">them</s>, <sn="3588">the</s><sn="40">Holy</s><sn="4151">Ghost</s><sn="2064">came</s><sn="1909">on</s><sn="846">them</s>; <sn="5037">and</s> they <sn="2980">spake</s> with <sn="1100">tongues</s>, <sn="2532">and</s><sn="4395">prophesied</s>. </v>
<vn='7'><sn="1161">And</s><sn="3956">all</s> the <sn="435">men</s><sn="2258">were</s><sn="5616">about</s><sn="1177">twelve</s>. </v>
<vn='8'><sn="1161">And</s> he <sn="1525">went</s><sn="1519">into</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="4864">synagogue</s>, and spake <sn="3955">boldly</s> for the space <sn="1909">of</s><sn="5140">three</s><sn="3376">months</s>, <sn="1256">disputing</s><sn="2532">and</s><sn="3982">persuading</s> the <sn="3588">things</s><sn="4012">concerning</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="932">kingdom</s> of <sn="2316">God</s>. </v>
<vn='9'><sn="1161">But</s><sn="5613">when</s><sn="5100">divers</s> were <sn="4645">hardened</s>, <sn="2532">and</s> believed <sn="544">not</s>, but spake <sn="2551">evil</s> of that <sn="3598">way</s><sn="1799">before</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="4128">multitude</s>, he <sn="868">departed</s><sn="575">from</s><sn="846">them</s>, and <sn="873">separated</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="3101">disciples</s>, <sn="1256">disputing</s><sn="2596 2250">daily</s><sn="1722">in</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="4981">school</s> of <sn="5100">one</s><sn="5181">Tyrannus</s>. </v>
<vn='10'><sn="1161">And</s><sn="5124">this</s><sn="1096">continued</s> by the space <sn="1909">of</s><sn="1417">two</s><sn="2094">years</s>; so <sn="5620">that</s><sn="3956">all</s> they which <sn="2730">dwelt</s> in <sn="773">Asia</s><sn="191">heard</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="3056">word</s> of <sn="3588">the</s><sn="2962">Lord</s><sn="2424">Jesus</s>, <sn="5037">both</s><sn="2453">Jews</s><sn="2532">and</s><sn="1672">Greeks</s>. </v>
<vn='11'><sn="5037">And</s><sn="2316">God</s><sn="4160">wrought</s><sn="3756 5177">special</s><sn="1411">miracles</s><sn="1223">by</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="5495">hands</s> of <sn="3972">Paul</s>: </v>
<vn='12'>So <sn="5620">that</s><sn="575">from</s><sn="846">his</s><sn="5559">body</s> were <sn="2018">brought</s><sn="1909">unto</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="770">sick</s><sn="4676">handkerchiefs</s><sn="2228">or</s><sn="4612">aprons</s>, <sn="2532">and</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="3554">diseases</s><sn="525">departed</s><sn="575">from</s><sn="846">them</s>, <sn="5037">and</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="4190">evil</s><sn="4151">spirits</s><sn="1831">went</s> out <sn="575">of</s><sn="846">them</s>. </v>
<vn='13'><sn="1161">Then</s><sn="5100">certain</s><sn="575">of</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="4022">vagabond</s><sn="2453">Jews</s>, <sn="1845">exorcists</s>, took <sn="2021">upon</s> them to <sn="3687">call</s><sn="1909">over</s> them which <sn="2192">had</s><sn="4190">evil</s><sn="4151">spirits</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="3686">name</s> of <sn="3588">the</s><sn="2962">Lord</s><sn="2424">Jesus</s>, <sn="3004">saying</s>, We <sn="3726">adjure</s><sn="5209">you</s> by <sn="2424">Jesus</s><sn="3739">whom</s><sn="3972">Paul</s><sn="2784">preacheth</s>. </v>
<vn='14'><sn="1161">And</s> there <sn="2258">were</s><sn="2033">seven</s><sn="5207">sons</s> of one <sn="4630">Sceva</s>, a <sn="2453">Jew</s>, and chief of the <sn="749">priests</s>, which <sn="4160">did</s><sn="5124">so</s>. </v>
<vn='15'><sn="1161">And</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="4190">evil</s><sn="4151">spirit</s><sn="611">answered</s> and <sn="2036">said</s>, <sn="2424">Jesus</s> I <sn="1097">know</s>, <sn="2532">and</s><sn="3972">Paul</s> I <sn="1987">know</s>; <sn="1161">but</s><sn="5101">who</s><sn="2075">are</s><sn="5210">ye</s>? </v>
<vn='16'><sn="2532">And</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="444">man</s><sn="1722">in</s><sn="3739">whom</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="4190">evil</s><sn="4151">spirit</s><sn="2258">was</s><sn="2177">leaped</s><sn="1909">on</s><sn="846">them</s>, <sn="2532">and</s><sn="2634">overcame</s><sn="846">them</s>, and <sn="2480">prevailed</s><sn="2596">against</s><sn="846">them</s>, so <sn="5620">that</s> they <sn="1628">fled</s> out <sn="1537">of</s><sn="1565">that</s><sn="3624">house</s><sn="1131">naked</s><sn="2532">and</s><sn="5135">wounded</s>. </v>
<vn='17'><sn="1161">And</s><sn="5124">this</s><sn="1096">was</s><sn="1110">known</s> to <sn="3956">all</s> the <sn="2453">Jews</s><sn="2532">and</s><sn="1672">Greeks</s><sn="5037">also</s><sn="2730">dwelling</s> at <sn="2181">Ephesus</s>; <sn="2532">and</s><sn="5401">fear</s><sn="1968">fell</s><sn="1909">on</s><sn="846">them</s><sn="3956">all</s>, <sn="2532">and</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="3686">name</s> of <sn="3588">the</s><sn="2962">Lord</s><sn="2424">Jesus</s> was <sn="3170">magnified</s>. </v>
<vn='18'><sn="5037">And</s><sn="4183">many</s> that <sn="4100">believed</s><sn="2064">came</s>, and <sn="1843">confessed</s>, <sn="2532">and</s><sn="312">showed</s><sn="848">their</s><sn="4234">deeds</s>. </v>
<vn='19'><sn="*1161"></s><sn="2425">Many</s> of them also which <sn="4238">used</s> curious <sn="4021">arts</s> brought their books <sn="4851 976">together</s>, and <sn="2618">burned</s> them <sn="1799">before</s><sn="3956">all</s> men: <sn="2532">and</s> they <sn="4860">counted</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="5092">price</s> of <sn="846">them</s>, <sn="2532">and</s><sn="2147">found</s> it fifty <sn="4002 3461">thousand</s> pieces of <sn="694">silver</s>. </v>
<vn='20'><sn="3779">So</s><sn="2596 2904">mightily</s><sn="837">grew</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="3056">word</s> of <sn="2962">God</s><sn="2532">and</s><sn="2480">prevailed</s>. </v>
<vn='21'><sn="*1161"></s><sn="5613">After</s> these <sn="5023">things</s> were <sn="4137">ended</s>, <sn="3972">Paul</s><sn="5087">purposed</s><sn="1722">in</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="4151">spirit</s>, when he had passed <sn="1330">through</s><sn="3109">Macedonia</s><sn="2532">and</s><sn="882">Achaia</s>, to <sn="4198">go</s><sn="1519">to</s><sn="2419">Jerusalem</s>, <sn="2036">saying</s>, After <sn="3165">I</s> have <sn="1096">been</s><sn="1563">there</s>, <sn="3165">I</s><sn="1163">must</s><sn="2532">also</s><sn="1492">see</s><sn="4516">Rome</s>. </v>
<vn='22'><sn="1161">So</s> he <sn="649">sent</s><sn="1519">into</s><sn="3109">Macedonia</s><sn="1417">two</s> of them that <sn="1247">ministered</s> unto <sn="846">him</s>, <sn="5095">Timothy</s><sn="2532">and</s><sn="2037">Erastus</s>; but <sn="846">he</s> himself <sn="1907">stayed</s><sn="1519">in</s><sn="773">Asia</s> for a <sn="5550">season</s>. </v>
<vn='23'><sn="1161">And</s> the <sn="2596 1565">same</s><sn="2540">time</s> there <sn="1096">arose</s><sn="3756">no</s><sn="3641">small</s><sn="5017">stir</s><sn="4012">about</s> that <sn="3598">way</s>. </v>
<vn='24'><sn="1063">For</s> a <sn="5100">certain</s> man <sn="3686">named</s><sn="1216">Demetrius</s>, a <sn="695">silversmith</s>, which <sn="4160">made</s><sn="693">silver</s><sn="3485">shrines</s> for <sn="735">Diana</s>, <sn="3930">brought</s><sn="3756">no</s><sn="3641">small</s><sn="2039">gain</s> unto <sn="3588">the</s><sn="5079">craftsmen</s>; </v>
<vn='25'><sn="3739">Whom</s> he called <sn="4867">together</s><sn="2532">with</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="2040">workmen</s><sn="4012">of</s> like <sn="5108">occupation</s>, and <sn="2036">said</s>, <sn="435">Sirs</s>, ye <sn="1987">know</s><sn="3754">that</s><sn="1537">by</s><sn="5026">this</s><sn="2039">craft</s> we <sn="2076">have</s><sn="2257">our</s><sn="2142">wealth</s>. </v>
<vn='26'><sn="2532">Moreover</s> ye <sn="2334">see</s><sn="2532">and</s><sn="191">hear</s>, <sn="3754">that</s><sn="3756">not</s><sn="3440">alone</s> at <sn="2181">Ephesus</s>, <sn="235">but</s><sn="4975">almost</s> throughout <sn="3956">all</s><sn="773">Asia</s>, <sn="3778">this</s><sn="3972">Paul</s> hath <sn="3982">persuaded</s> and turned <sn="3179">away</s><sn="2425">much</s><sn="3793">people</s>, <sn="3004">saying</s><sn="3754">that</s> they <sn="1526">be</s><sn="3756">no</s><sn="2316">gods</s>, <sn="3588">which</s> are <sn="1096">made</s><sn="1223">with</s><sn="5495">hands</s>: </v>
<vn='27'>So <sn="*1161">that</s><sn="3756">not</s><sn="3440">only</s><sn="5124">this</s><sn="2254">our</s><sn="3313">craft</s> is in <sn="2793">danger</s> to be set at <sn="2064 1519 557">naught</s>; <sn="235">but</s><sn="2532">also</s> that <sn="3588">the</s><sn="2411">temple</s> of <sn="3588">the</s><sn="3173">great</s><sn="2299">goddess</s><sn="735">Diana</s> should be <sn="1519 3762 3049">despised</s>, <sn="1161">and</s><sn="848">her</s><sn="3168">magnificence</s><sn="3195">should</s><sn="*2532">be</s><sn="2507">destroyed</s>, <sn="3739">whom</s><sn="3650">all</s><sn="773">Asia</s><sn="2532">and</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="3625">world</s><sn="4576">worshippeth</s>. </v>
<vn='28'><sn="1161">And</s> when they <sn="191">heard</s> these sayings, they <sn="1096">were</s><sn="4134">full</s> of <sn="2372">wrath</s>, <sn="2532">and</s> cried <sn="2896">out</s>, <sn="3004">saying</s>, <sn="3173">Great</s> is <sn="735">Diana</s> of the <sn="2180">Ephesians</s>. </v>
<vn='29'><sn="2532">And</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="3650">whole</s><sn="4172">city</s> was <sn="4130">filled</s> with <sn="4799">confusion</s>: <sn="5037">and</s> having <sn="4884">caught</s><sn="1050">Gaius</s><sn="2532">and</s><sn="708">Aristarchus</s>, men of <sn="3110">Macedonia</s>, <sn="3972">Paul</s> 's companions in <sn="4898">travel</s>, they <sn="3729">rushed</s> with one <sn="3661">accord</s><sn="1519">into</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="2302">theater</s>. </v>
<vn='30'><sn="1161">And</s> when <sn="3972">Paul</s><sn="1014">would</s> have entered <sn="1525">in</s><sn="1519">unto</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="1218">people</s>, <sn="3588">the</s><sn="3101">disciples</s><sn="1439">suffered</s><sn="846">him</s><sn="3756">not</s>. </v>
<vn='31'><sn="1161">And</s><sn="5100">certain</s><sn="*2532">of</s><sn="3588">the</s> chief of <sn="775">Asia</s>, which <sn="5607">were</s><sn="846">his</s><sn="5384">friends</s>, <sn="3992">sent</s><sn="4314">unto</s><sn="846">him</s>, <sn="3870">desiring</s> him that he would <sn="3361">not</s><sn="1325">adventure</s><sn="1438">himself</s><sn="1519">into</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="2302">theater</s>. </v>
<vn='32'>Some therefore cried one <sn="243 3303 3767 2896">thing</s>, and <sn="243">some</s><sn="5100">another</s>: <sn="1063">for</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="1577">assembly</s><sn="2258">was</s><sn="4797">confused</s>; <sn="2532">and</s><sn="3588">the</s> more <sn="4119">part</s><sn="1492">knew</s><sn="3756">not</s><sn="5101 1752">wherefore</s> they were come <sn="4905">together</s>. </v>
<vn='33'><sn="1161">And</s> they <sn="4264">drew</s><sn="223">Alexander</s> out <sn="1537">of</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="3793">multitude</s>, <sn="3588">the</s><sn="2453">Jews</s> putting him <sn="4261 846">forward</s>. <sn="1161">And</s><sn="223">Alexander</s><sn="2678">beckoned</s> with <sn="3588">the</s><sn="5495">hand</s>, and <sn="2309">would</s> have made his <sn="626">defense</s> unto <sn="3588">the</s><sn="1218">people</s>. </v>
<vn='34'><sn="1161">But</s> when they <sn="1921">knew</s><sn="3754">that</s> he <sn="2076">was</s> a <sn="2453">Jew</s>, all with one <sn="1096 5456 3391 1537 3956">voice</s> about the space <sn="5613 1909">of</s><sn="1417">two</s><sn="5610">hours</s> cried <sn="2896">out</s>, <sn="3173">Great</s> is <sn="735">Diana</s> of the <sn="2180">Ephesians</s>. </v>
<vn='35'><sn="1161">And</s> when <sn="3588">the</s> town <sn="1122">clerk</s> had <sn="2687">appeased</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="3793">people</s>, he <sn="5346">said</s>, Ye <sn="435">men</s> of <sn="2180 *1063">Ephesus</s>, <sn="5101">what</s><sn="444">man</s><sn="2076">is</s> there <sn="3739">that</s><sn="1097">knoweth</s><sn="3756">not</s> how that <sn="3588">the</s><sn="4172">city</s> of the <sn="2180">Ephesians</s><sn="5607">is</s> a <sn="3511">worshiper</s> of <sn="3588">the</s><sn="3173">great</s><sn="2299">goddess</s><sn="735">Diana</s>, <sn="2532">and</s> of the image which fell down from <sn="1356">Jupiter</s>? </v>
<vn='36'>Seeing <sn="3767">then</s> that these <sn="5130">things</s> cannot be spoken <sn="5607 368">against</s>, <sn="5209 *2076">ye</s><sn="1163">ought</s> to <sn="5225">be</s><sn="2687">quiet</s>, <sn="2532">and</s> to <sn="4238">do</s><sn="3367">nothing</s><sn="4312">rashly</s>. </v>
<vn='37'><sn="1063">For</s> ye have <sn="71">brought</s> hither <sn="5128">these</s><sn="435">men</s>, which are <sn="3777">neither</s> robbers of <sn="2417">churches</s>, <sn="3777">nor</s> yet <sn="987">blasphemers</s> of <sn="5216">your</s><sn="2299">goddess</s>. </v>
<vn='38'><sn="3767">Wherefore</s><sn="1487">if</s><sn="1216">Demetrius</s>, <sn="2532">and</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="5079">craftsmen</s> which are <sn="4862">with</s><sn="846">him</s>, <sn="2192">have</s> a <sn="3056">matter</s><sn="4314">against</s> any <sn="5100">man</s>, the law is <sn="60 71">open</s>, <sn="2532">and</s> there <sn="1526">are</s><sn="446">deputies</s>: let them <sn="1458">implead</s> one <sn="240">another</s>. </v>
<vn='39'><sn="1161">But</s><sn="1487">if</s> ye <sn="1934">inquire</s> any <sn="5100">thing</s><sn="4012">concerning</s> other <sn="2087">matters</s>, it shall be <sn="1956">determined</s><sn="1722">in</s> a <sn="1772">lawful</s><sn="1577">assembly</s>. </v>
<vn='40'><sn="1063">For</s> we are in <sn="2793">danger</s><sn="*2532">to</s> be called in <sn="1458">question</s><sn="4012">for</s> this <sn="4594">day</s> 's <sn="4714">uproar</s>, there <sn="5225">being</s><sn="3367">no</s><sn="158">cause</s><sn="4012 3739">whereby</s> we <sn="1410">may</s><sn="591">give</s> an <sn="3056">account</s> of <sn="5026">this</s><sn="4963">concourse</s>. </v>
<vn='41'><sn="2532">And</s> when he had <sn="5023">thus</s><sn="2036">spoken</s>, he <sn="630">dismissed</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="1577">assembly</s>. </v>