28. When they heard this, they were filled with fury and began to shout, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
29. The city was filled with confusion, and the people rushed with one accord into the theater, seizing Gaius and Aristarchus, the Macedonians, Paul’s traveling companions.
30. Paul wanted to go before the crowd, but the disciples would not let him,
31. and even some of the Asiarchs who were friends of his sent word to him advising him not to venture into the theater.
32. Meanwhile, some were shouting one thing, others something else; the assembly was in chaos, and most of the people had no idea why they had come together.