1It happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the upper country and came to Ephesus, and found some disciples.
2He said to them, "Did you receive hagio(holy) pneuma(spirit) when you believed?" And they said to him, "No, we have not even heard whether there is a hagio(holy) pneuma(spirit)."
3And he said, "Into what then were you baptized?" And they said, "Into John's baptism."
4Paul said, "John baptized with the baptism of metanoia(repentance, spiritual domain), telling the people to believe in Him who was coming after him, that is, in Yeshua(Jesus) the Messiah(Christ)."
5When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Yeshua(Jesus).
6And when Paul had laid his hands on them, the hagio(holy) pneuma(spirit) came on them, and they began speaking with tongues and prophesying.
7There were in all about twelve men.
8And he entered the synagogue and continued speaking out with parresia(boldness) for three months, reasoning and persuading them about the kingdom of God.
9But when some were becoming hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the people, he withdrew from them and took away the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.
10This took place for two years, so that all who lived in Asia heard the logos(word) of the Lord Yeshua(Jesus), both Jews and Greeks.
11God was performing extraordinary dynamis(miracles, power) by the hands of Paul,
12so that handkerchiefs or aprons were even carried from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil pneuma(spirit)s went out.
13But also some of the Jewish exorcists, who went from place to place, attempted to name over those who had the evil pneuma(spirit)s the name of the Lord Yeshua(Jesus), saying, "I adjure you by Yeshua(Jesus) whom Paul preaches."
14Seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this.
15And the evil pneuma(spirit) answered and said to them, "I recognize Yeshua(Jesus), and I know about Paul, but who are you?"
16And the man, in whom was the evil pneuma(spirit), leaped on them and subdued all of them and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
17This became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived in Ephesus; and fear fell upon them all and the name of the Lord Yeshua(Jesus) was being magnified.
18Many also of those who had believed kept coming, confessing and disclosing their practices.
19And many of those who practiced magic brought their biblos(book)s together and began burning them in the sight of everyone; and they counted up the price of them and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
20So the logos(word) of the Lord was growing kata-kratos(with-dominion) and prevailing.
21Now after these things were finished, Paul purposed in the pneuma(spirit) to go to Jerusalem after he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, saying, "After I have been there, I must also see Rome."
22And having sent into Macedonia two of those who ministered to him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.
23About that kairos(appointed-time) there occurred no small disturbance concerning the Way.
24For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, was bringing no little business to the craftsmen;
25these he gathered together with the workmen of similar trades, and said, "Men, you know that our prosperity depends upon this business.
26You see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in almost all of Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away a considerable number of people, saying that gods made with hands are no gods at all.
27Not only is there danger that this trade of ours fall into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis be regarded as worthless and that she whom all of Asia and the world worship will even be dethroned from her magnificence."
28When they heard this and were filled with rage, they began crying out, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
29The city was filled with the confusion, and they rushed with one mind into the theater, dragging along Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians who were Paul's travel companions.
30And when Paul wanted to go into the assembly, the disciples would not let him.
31Also some of the Asiarchs(assembly leaders of Asia) who were philos(friends) of his sent to him and repeatedly urged him not to venture into the theater.
32So then, some were shouting one thing and some another, for the assembly was in confusion and the majority did not know for what reason they had come together.
33Some of the crowd concluded it was Alexander, since the Jews had put him forward; and Alexander motioned with his hand, wanting to make a defense to the people.
34But when they epignosantes(knowing-without-misjudgment) that he was a Jew, a single outcry arose from them all as they shouted for about two hours, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
35After the town clerk had quieted the crowd, he said, "Men of Ephesus, what man is there after all who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is guardian of the temple of the great Artemis and of the image which fell down from heaven?
36So, since these are undeniable facts, you ought to keep calm and to do nothing rash.
37For you have brought these men here who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of our goddess.
38So then, if Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a complaint against any man, the courts are in session and proconsuls are available; let them bring charges against one another.
39But if you want anything beyond this, it shall be settled in the lawful assembly.
40For we are also in danger of being accused of a riot in connection with today's events, since there is no real cause for it, and in this connection we will be unable to account for this disorderly gathering."
41After saying this he dismissed the assembly.