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Acts 19:28
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When they had heard this, they were filled with rage and began to cry out, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
And when they heard these sayings, they were ful of wrath, & cried out, saying, Great is Diana of ye Ephesians.
And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
When they heard this they were enraged and were crying out, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
When they heard this and were filled with rage, they began shouting, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
When the others heard this, they became very angry and shouted, "Artemis, the goddess of Ephesus, is great!"
When they heard this, they were filled with rage, and they began shouting, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
When they heard this and were filled with rage, they began crying out, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
When they heard this and were filled with rage, they began crying out, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
When the men heard this, they were enraged and began shouting, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
Hearing this, they were filled with rage and began bellowing, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
And having heard [this], and being filled with rage, they cried out, saying, Great [is] Artemis of the Ephesians.
When the men heard this, they became very angry. They shouted, "Great is Artemis, the goddess of Ephesus!"
Now when they heard it, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
And when they heard these things they were filled with wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Ar''te-mis of the E-phe''si-ans.
As the crowd heard these words, they became furious and started shouting, "Great is Artemis of Ephesus!"
And when they heard this and became full of rage, they began to shout, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
And having heard, and having become full of anger, they cried out, saying, Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!
And when they heard this they were filled with wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
And hearing this, they were very angry, crying out and saying, Great is Diana of Ephesus.
When they heard this they were filled with anger, and cried out, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
When they heard this, they became furious and began to shout, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
And when they heard these (words) they were filled with wrath; and they cried, and said, Great is Artemis of the Ephesoyee.
And when they heard these things they were filled with wrath; and they cried out, and said: Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
And when they hearde these sayinges, they were full of wrath, and cryed out, saying: great is Diana of ye Ephesians.
And when they heard this, they were filled with wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
When they heard this they were filled with anger, and cried out, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
And hearing this, they were filled with rage, and cried out, saying, The great Diana of the Ephesians.
After listening to this harangue, they became furiously angry and kept calling out, "Great is the Ephesian Diana!"
Whanne these thingis weren herd, thei weren fillid with ire, and crieden, and seiden, Greet is the Dian of Effesians.
And when they heard this they were filled with wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Artemis of the Ephesus.
And when they heard [these sayings], they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great [is] Diana of the Ephesians.
When they heard this they became enraged and began to shout, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
Now when they heard this, they were full of wrath and cried out, saying, "Great is Diana of the Ephesians!"
At this their anger boiled, and they began shouting, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
They became angry when they heard this and cried out, "Great is Diana of Ephesus."
When they heard this, they were enraged and shouted, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
Now, hearing this, and becoming full of wrath, they began crying aloud, saying - Great, is Diana of the Ephesians!
Having heard these things, they were full of anger and cried out, saying: Great is Diana of the Ephesians!
When they heard this they were enraged, and cried out, "Great is Ar'temis of the Ephesians!"
When they hearde these sayinges they were full of wrathe and cryed out saying: Greate is Diana of the Ephesians.
And they having heard, and having become full of wrath, were crying out, saying, `Great [is] the Artemis of the Ephesians!'
Whan they herde this, they were full of wrath, cried out, and sayde: Greate is Diana of the Ephesians.
at these words, they were fir'd with indignation, and cry'd out, "great is Diana of the Ephesians."
That set them off in a frenzy. They ran into the street yelling, "Great Artemis of the Ephesians! Great Artemis of the Ephesians!" They put the whole city in an uproar, stampeding into the stadium, and grabbing two of Paul's associates on the way, the Macedonians Gaius and Aristarchus. Paul wanted to go in, too, but the disciples wouldn't let him. Prominent religious leaders in the city who had become friendly to Paul concurred: "By no means go near that mob!"
Now, this really got 'em riled up. They all began chanting, "Artemis! Artemis! Artemis!"
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
they: Acts 7:54, Acts 16:19-24, Acts 21:28-31, Psalms 2:2, Revelation 12:12
and cried: Acts 19:34, Acts 19:35, 1 Samuel 5:3-5, 1 Kings 18:26-29, Isaiah 41:5-7, Jeremiah 50:38, Revelation 13:4, Revelation 17:13
Reciprocal: Psalms 2:1 - rage Psalms 83:2 - lo Acts 16:22 - the multitude Acts 19:24 - Diana Acts 23:10 - fearing Acts 26:17 - Delivering Ephesians 4:31 - clamour
Cross-References
But the two angels in the house reached out and pulled Lot safely inside.
Then they struck everyone in the crowd blind, and none of them could even find the door.
flowing streams into scorched land, and fruitful fields into beds of salt.
Lot lived right and was greatly troubled by the terrible way those wicked people were living. He was a good man, and day after day he suffered because of the evil things he saw and heard. So the Lord rescued him.
We should also be warned by what happened to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and the nearby towns. Their people became immoral and did all sorts of sexual sins. Then God made an example of them and punished them with eternal fire.
As it opened the tunnel, smoke poured out like the smoke of a great furnace. The sun and the air turned dark because of the smoke.
Every king on earth who slept with her and shared in her luxury will mourn. They will weep, when they see the smoke from that fire.
When they saw the smoke from her fire, they shouted, "This was the greatest city ever!"
Then the crowd shouted, "Praise the Lord! Smoke will never stop rising from her burning body."
But I will tell you what will happen to cowards and to everyone who is unfaithful or dirty-minded or who murders or is sexually immoral or uses witchcraft or worships idols or tells lies. They will be thrown into that lake of fire and burning sulfur. This is the second death.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And when they heard these sayings,.... Both the masters and the workmen;
they were full of wrath; against Paul and his doctrine:
and cried out, saying, great is Diana of the Ephesians; this goddess is frequently called in Heathen writers, Diana of the Ephesians, or the Ephesian Diana, because of her famous temple at Ephesus; and to distinguish her from all other Dianas: Pausanias makes mention of sixty Dianas at least, and yet seems not to have taken notice of them all; all of them had different epithets, by which they were distinguished from one another; the images were in different shapes, and they were worshipped with different rites: what seems most of all to distinguish the Ephesian Diana from others, is her having many paps; hence she is called, "multi mammia"; so Minutius Felix observes t, that Diana is sometimes girt about on high as an huntress, and the Ephesian Diana is "mammis multis uberibus extructa" Just as the Isis of the Egyptians, which, Macrobius u says, signifies the earth; hence the whole body of the deity is covered with paps, because the whole universe is nourished by it: the priest of Diana of the Ephesians was an eunuch, and was obliged to abstain from all company; neither bathed, nor ate, nor drank with others, nor might he enter into the house of a private person; there was a feast kept every year in honour of her, at which young men in the flower of their age, and virgins well dressed, used to go to the temple in great pomp, keep the feast, and marry with each other. The temple was a sort of an asylum, as Heathen temples commonly were; and it had this particular privilege, that those that fled to it were freed from servitude w. This goddess is called "great", agreeably to her name, for, ××× ×, "Diana", signifies "great" and venerable; because of her birth, being the daughter of Jupiter; and because of her great service, she was supposed to be of in assisting at births; and because of her magnificent temple and worship; and because she was worshipped by great persons: and here greatness is ascribed unto her, and a loud cry made of it, to animate one another, to gather a mob together, and to incense them and stir them up against the apostle and his companion: in the Arabic version, instead of Diana, it is Venus, both here and elsewhere, but wrongly.
t In Octavia, p. 22. u Saturnal. l. 1. c. 20. w Pausauias in Arcadicis, sive, l. 8. p. 476. Alex. Genial. Dier. l. 3. c. 20. & l. 6. c. 2. & c. 12.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Were full of wrath - Were greatly enraged - probably at the prospect of losing their gains.
Great is Diana ... - The term âgreatâ was often applied by the Greeks to Diana. Thus, in Xenophon (Ephes. i.), he says, âI adjure you by your own goddess, the great (ÏηÌν μεγαÌλην teÌn megaleÌn) Diana of the Ephesians.â The design of this clamor was doubtless to produce a persecution against Paul, and thus to secure a continuance of their employment. Often, when people have no arguments, they raise a clamor; when their employments are in danger of being ruined, they are filled with rage. We may learn, also, that when peopleâs pecuniary interests are affected, they often show great zeal for religion, and expect by clamor in behalf of some doctrine to maintain their own interest, and to secure their own gains.
