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Acts 17:5And the unbelieving Jews, having been moved with envy, and having taken to them of the loungers certain evil men, and having made a crowd, were setting the city in an uproar; having assailed also the house of Jason, they were seeking them to bring them to the populace,Acts 19:29and the whole city was filled with confusion, they rushed also with one accord into the theatre, having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians, Paul’s fellow-travellers.Acts 19:30And on Paul’s purposing to enter in unto the populace, the disciples were not suffering him,Acts 19:31and certain also of the chief men of Asia, being his friends, having sent unto him, were entreating him not to venture himself into the theatre.Acts 19:32Some indeed, therefore, were calling out one thing, and some another, for the assembly was confused, and the greater part did not know for what they were come together;Acts 19:33and out of the multitude they put forward Alexander—the Jews thrusting him forward—and Alexander having beckoned with the hand, wished to make defence to the populace,Acts 19:34and having known that he is a Jew, one voice came out of all, for about two hours, crying, ‘Great is the Artemis of the Ephesians!’Acts 19:35And the public clerk having quieted the multitude, saith, ‘Men, Ephesians, why, who is the man that doth not know that the city of the Ephesians is a devotee of the great goddess Artemis, and of that which fell down from Zeus?Acts 19:36these things, then, not being to be gainsaid, it is necessary for you to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.Acts 19:37‘For ye brought these men, who are neither temple-robbers nor speaking evil of your goddess;Acts 19:38if indeed, therefore, Demetrius and the artificers with him with any one have a matter, court days are held, and there are proconsuls; let them accuse one another.Acts 19:39‘And if ye seek after anything concerning other matters, in the legal assembly it shall be determined;Acts 19:40for we are also in peril of being accused of insurrection in regard to this day, there being no occasion by which we shall be able to give an account of this concourse;’Acts 21:28crying out, ‘Men, Israelites, help! this is the man who, against the people, and the law, and this place, all everywhere is teaching; and further, also, Greeks he brought into the temple, and hath defiled this holy place;’Acts 21:30All the city also was moved and there was a running together of the people, and having laid hold on Paul, they were drawing him out of the temple, and immediately were the doors shut,
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