Acts 19:26-28

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

²⁶ And you are seeing and hearing that this Paul— having persuaded people not only from Ephesus, but from almost all Asia— turned-away a considerable crowd, saying that the gods being made with hands are not gods. ²⁷ But not only is-there-a-danger for us that this^[a] part may come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis may be counted for nothing, and that she whom all Asia and the world worships may even be about to be torn-down^[b] from her majesty”.

Amid The City-Wide Confusion, Friends of Paul Are Seized

²⁸ And having heard it, and having become full of rage, they were crying-out, saying, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”