34. But when the crowd saw that he was Jewish, they all shouted for two hours, “Great is Artemis, the goddess of the Ephesians!”
35. Finally, a town official made the crowd be quiet. Then he said:People of Ephesus, who in the world doesn't know that our city is the centre for worshipping the great goddess Artemis? Who doesn't know that her image which fell from heaven is here?
36. No one can deny this, and so you should calm down and not do anything foolish.
37. You have brought men in here who have not robbed temples or spoken against our goddess.
38. If Demetrius and his workers have a case against these men, we have courts and judges. Let them take their complaints there.