31. Even some of the provincial authorities who were his friends sent a message to him, urging him not to venture into the theater.
32. So then some were shouting one thing, some another, for the assembly was in confusion, and most of them did not know why they had met together.
33. Some of the crowd concluded it was about Alexander because the Jews had pushed him to the front. Alexander, gesturing with his hand, was wanting to make a defense before the public assembly.
34. But when they recognized that he was a Jew, they all shouted in unison, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!” for about two hours.
35. After the city secretary quieted the crowd, he said, “Men of Ephesus, what person is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is the keeper of the temple of the great Artemis and of her image that fell from heaven?
36. So because these facts are indisputable, you must keep quiet and not do anything reckless.
37. For you have brought these men here who are neither temple robbers nor blasphemers of our goddess.