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When they heard this and were filled with rage, they began shouting, saying, "Great is ^(F1)Artemis of the ^(C1)Ephesians!"

The city was filled with the confusion, and they rushed together into the theater, dragging along ^(C1)Gaius and ^(C2)Aristarchus, Paul's ^(C3)Macedonian traveling ^(C4)companions.

And when Paul wanted to go into the assembly, ^(C1)the disciples would not let him.

Also some of the ^(F1)Asiarchs who were friends of his sent word to him and repeatedly urged him not to ^(F2)venture into the theater.

^(C1)So then, some were shouting one thing and some another, for the ^(F1)assembly was in confusion and the majority did not know ^(F2)for what reason they had come together.

Some of the crowd ^(F1)concluded it was Alexander, since the Jews had put him forward; and having ^(C1)motioned with his hand, Alexander was intending to make a defense to the assembly.

But when they recognized that he was a Jew, a single outcry arose from them all as they shouted for about two hours, "Great is ^(F1)Artemis of the Ephesians!"