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After the uproar ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them, he said farewell and departed for Macedonia.

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highlighted Acts 19:41 ESV

And when he had said these things, he dismissed the assembly.

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highlighted Acts 19:40 ESV

For we really are in danger of being charged with rioting today, since there is no cause that we can give to justify this commotion."

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highlighted Acts 19:39 ESV

But if you seek anything further, it shall be settled in the regular assembly.

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highlighted Acts 19:37-38 ESV

For you have brought these men here who are neither sacrilegious nor blasphemers of our goddess.

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highlighted Acts 19:36 ESV

Seeing then that these things cannot be denied, you ought to be quiet and do nothing rash.

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And when the town clerk had quieted the crowd, he said, "Men of Ephesus, who is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great Artemis, and of the sacred stone that fell from the sky?

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highlighted Acts 19:33-34 ESV

Some of the crowd prompted Alexander, whom the Jews had put forward. And Alexander, motioning with his hand, wanted to make a defense to the crowd.

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highlighted Acts 19:30 ESV

But when Paul wished to go in among the crowd, the disciples would not let him.

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highlighted Acts 19:29 ESV

So the city was filled with the confusion, and they rushed together into the theater, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians who were Paul's companions in travel.

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highlighted Acts 19:28 ESV

When they heard this they were enraged and were crying out, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"

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highlighted Acts 19:27 ESV

And there is danger not only that this trade of ours may come into disrepute but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis may be counted as nothing, and that she may even be deposed from her magnificence, she whom all Asia and the world worship."

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highlighted Acts 19:26 ESV

And you see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost all of Asia this Paul has persuaded and turned away a great many people, saying that gods made with hands are not gods.

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highlighted Acts 19:24-25 ESV

For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen.

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highlighted Acts 19:23 ESV

About that time there arose no little disturbance concerning the Way.

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highlighted Acts 19:22 ESV

And having sent into Macedonia two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.

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highlighted Acts 19:20 ESV

So the word of the Lord continued to increase and prevail mightily.

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highlighted Acts 19:19 ESV

And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver.

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highlighted Acts 19:18 ESV

Also many of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices.

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highlighted Acts 19:17 ESV

And this became known to all the residents of Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks. And fear fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was extolled.

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