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Acts 19:28

at these words, they were fir'd with indignation, and cry'd out, "great is Diana of the Ephesians."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Demetrius;   Diana;   Paul;   Scofield Reference Index - Holy Spirit;   Thompson Chain Reference - Business Life;   Capital and Labour;   Diana;   False;   Gods, False;   Idolatry;   Images;   Labour Unions;   Man;   Man's;   Worship, False;   Worship, True and False;   Wrath;   Wrath-Anger;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Idolatry;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Diana;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Aristarchus;   Ephesus;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Gods and Goddesses, Pagan;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Ordination;   Relics;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Diana;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Corinth;   Paul;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Acts;   Art and Aesthetics;   Artemis;   Demetrius;   Ephesus;   Gods, Pagan;   Masons;   Silversmith;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Anger;   Bible;   Corinthians, Second Epistle to;   Romans, Epistle to the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Name ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Artemis ;   Diana ;   Ephesians ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Diana;   Ephesians;   Ephesus;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Saul of Tarsus;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ephesian;  

Parallel Translations

Simplified Cowboy Version
Now, this really got 'em riled up. They all began chanting, "Artemis! Artemis! Artemis!"
New American Standard Bible (1995)
When they heard this and were filled with rage, they began crying out, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
Legacy Standard Bible
When they heard this and were filled with rage, they began crying out, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
Bible in Basic English
And hearing this, they were very angry, crying out and saying, Great is Diana of Ephesus.
Darby Translation
And having heard [this], and being filled with rage, they cried out, saying, Great [is] Artemis of the Ephesians.
New King James Version
Now when they heard this, they were full of wrath and cried out, saying, "Great is Diana of the Ephesians!"
Christian Standard Bible®
When they had heard this, they were filled with rage and began to cry out, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
World English Bible
When they heard this they were filled with anger, and cried out, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And hearing this, they were filled with rage, and cried out, saying, The great Diana of the Ephesians.
Weymouth's New Testament
After listening to this harangue, they became furiously angry and kept calling out, "Great is the Ephesian Diana!"
King James Version (1611)
And when they heard these sayings, they were ful of wrath, & cried out, saying, Great is Diana of ye Ephesians.
Literal Translation
And having heard, and having become full of anger, they cried out, saying, Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Whan they herde this, they were full of wrath, cried out, and sayde: Greate is Diana of the Ephesians.
THE MESSAGE
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!"
Amplified Bible
When they heard this, they were filled with rage, and they began shouting, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
American Standard Version
And when they heard this they were filled with wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
Revised Standard Version
When they heard this they were enraged, and cried out, "Great is Ar'temis of the Ephesians!"
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
When they hearde these sayinges they were full of wrathe and cryed out saying: Greate is Diana of the Ephesians.
Update Bible Version
And when they heard this they were filled with wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Artemis of the Ephesus.
Webster's Bible Translation
And when they heard [these sayings], they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great [is] Diana of the Ephesians.
Young's Literal Translation
And they having heard, and having become full of wrath, were crying out, saying, `Great [is] the Artemis of the Ephesians!'
New Century Version
When the others heard this, they became very angry and shouted, "Artemis, the goddess of Ephesus, is great!"
New English Translation
When they heard this they became enraged and began to shout, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
Berean Standard Bible
When the men heard this, they were enraged and began shouting, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
Contemporary English Version
When the workers heard this, they got angry and started shouting, "Great is Artemis, the goddess of the Ephesians!"
Complete Jewish Bible
Hearing this, they were filled with rage and began bellowing, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
English Standard Version
When they heard this they were enraged and were crying out, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
Geneva Bible (1587)
Now when they heard it, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
George Lamsa Translation
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.
Hebrew Names Version
When they heard this they were filled with anger, and cried out, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
International Standard Version
When they heard this, they became furious and began to shout, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
Etheridge Translation
And when they heard these (words) they were filled with wrath; and they cried, and said, Great is Artemis of the Ephesoyee.
Murdock Translation
And when they heard these things they were filled with wrath; and they cried out, and said: Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
New Living Translation
At this their anger boiled, and they began shouting, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
New Life Bible
They became angry when they heard this and cried out, "Great is Diana of Ephesus."
English Revised Version
And when they heard this, they were filled with wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
New Revised Standard
When they heard this, they were enraged and shouted, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now, hearing this, and becoming full of wrath, they began crying aloud, saying - Great, is Diana of the Ephesians!
Douay-Rheims Bible
Having heard these things, they were full of anger and cried out, saying: Great is Diana of the Ephesians!
King James Version
And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
Lexham English Bible
And when they heard this and became full of rage, they began to shout, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And when they hearde these sayinges, they were full of wrath, and cryed out, saying: great is Diana of ye Ephesians.
Easy-to-Read Version
When the men heard this, they became very angry. They shouted, "Great is Artemis, the goddess of Ephesus!"
New American Standard Bible
When they heard this and were filled with rage, they began shouting, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
Good News Translation
As the crowd heard these words, they became furious and started shouting, "Great is Artemis of Ephesus!"
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whanne these thingis weren herd, thei weren fillid with ire, and crieden, and seiden, Greet is the Dian of Effesians.

Contextual Overview

21 after this, Paul had a design to pass thro' Macedonia and Achaia in his way to Jerusalem: purposing when he had been there to make a visit to Rome. 22 he sent therefore Timothy and Erastus, two of his assistants in the ministry, before to Macedonia; but stay'd himself in Asia for some time. 23 It was then a tumult happen'd at Ephesus upon account of the christian sect. 24 for one Demetrius, a silver-smith, who made little models of Diana's temple, and so furnish'd a deal of employment to the workmen in that trade, 25 summon'd the company, and thus address'd them, "tho' you know, sirs, it is by this craft that we are in such plight, 26 yet your own eyes and ears have inform'd you, that not only at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul by his persuasions has turn'd the heads of a world of people, asserting, that these are Gods of our own making, and not really such. 27 so that not only our profession runs the risk of being vilified; but the temple of the great goddess Diana will be depreciated, and her majesty, so rever'd thro' all Asia, and the whole world, will be discarded." 28 at these words, they were fir'd with indignation, and cry'd out, "great is Diana of the Ephesians." 29 and the whole city was fill'd with confusion: all crouded in a body to the theatre, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, both of Macedonia, who had travell'd with Paul. 30 upon this Paul was bent upon going. to the populace,

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

2 Peter 2:7
since he deliver'd that just man Lot, who was grieved at the enormous practices of the licentious;
Jude 1:7
so it was with Sodom, Gomorrha, and the neighbouring cities, who abandoning themselves to the same licentiousness and abominable passions, were made examples by suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
Revelation 9:2
and he opened the bottomless pit, and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkned by reason of the smoke of the pit.
Revelation 18:9
the kings of the earth, the accomplices of her licentiousness and luxury, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her conflagration,
Revelation 18:18
and cry out, when they see the smoke of her burning, what city could be compar'd to this great city?
Revelation 19:3
again they said, "alleluia." and her smoke. rose up for ever and ever.
Revelation 21:8
but the fearful, and incredulous, the abominable, the murderer, the licentious, the poisoner, the idolater, and every lyar shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: 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, דינא, "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 “great” was often applied by the Greeks to Diana. Thus, in Xenophon (Ephes. i.), he says, “I adjure you by your own goddess, the great (τὴν μεγάλην tēn megalēn) Diana of the Ephesians.” 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 people’s 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.


 
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