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Acts 19:28
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When they had heard this, they were filled with rage and began to cry out, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
And when they heard these sayings, they were ful of wrath, & cried out, saying, Great is Diana of ye Ephesians.
And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
When they heard this they were enraged and were crying out, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
When they heard this and were filled with rage, they began shouting, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
When the others heard this, they became very angry and shouted, "Artemis, the goddess of Ephesus, is great!"
When they heard this, they were filled with rage, and they began shouting, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
When they heard this and were filled with rage, they began crying out, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
When they heard this and were filled with rage, they began crying out, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
When the men heard this, they were enraged and began shouting, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
When the workers heard this, they got angry and started shouting, "Great is Artemis, the goddess of the Ephesians!"
Hearing this, they were filled with rage and began bellowing, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
And having heard [this], and being filled with rage, they cried out, saying, Great [is] Artemis of the Ephesians.
When the men heard this, they became very angry. They shouted, "Great is Artemis, the goddess of Ephesus!"
Now when they heard it, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
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.
As the crowd heard these words, they became furious and started shouting, "Great is Artemis of Ephesus!"
And when they heard this and became full of rage, they began to shout, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
And having heard, and having become full of anger, they cried out, saying, Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!
And when they heard this they were filled with wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
And hearing this, they were very angry, crying out and saying, Great is Diana of Ephesus.
When they heard this they were filled with anger, and cried out, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
When they heard this, they became furious and began to shout, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
And when they heard these (words) they were filled with wrath; and they cried, and said, Great is Artemis of the Ephesoyee.
And when they heard these things they were filled with wrath; and they cried out, and said: Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
And when they hearde these sayinges, they were full of wrath, and cryed out, saying: great is Diana of ye Ephesians.
And when they heard this, they were filled with wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
When they heard this they were filled with anger, and cried out, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
And hearing this, they were filled with rage, and cried out, saying, The great Diana of the Ephesians.
After listening to this harangue, they became furiously angry and kept calling out, "Great is the Ephesian Diana!"
And when they heard this they were filled with wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Artemis of the Ephesus.
And when they heard [these sayings], they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great [is] Diana of the Ephesians.
When they heard this they became enraged and began to shout, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
Now when they heard this, they were full of wrath and cried out, saying, "Great is Diana of the Ephesians!"
At this their anger boiled, and they began shouting, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
They became angry when they heard this and cried out, "Great is Diana of Ephesus."
When they heard this, they were enraged and shouted, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
Now, hearing this, and becoming full of wrath, they began crying aloud, saying - Great, is Diana of the Ephesians!
Having heard these things, they were full of anger and cried out, saying: Great is Diana of the Ephesians!
When they heard this they were enraged, and cried out, "Great is Ar'temis of the Ephesians!"
When they hearde these sayinges they were full of wrathe and cryed out saying: Greate is Diana of the Ephesians.
And they having heard, and having become full of wrath, were crying out, saying, `Great [is] the Artemis of the Ephesians!'
Whan they herde this, they were full of wrath, cried out, and sayde: Greate is Diana of the Ephesians.
at these words, they were fir'd with indignation, and cry'd out, "great is Diana of the Ephesians."
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!"
Now, this really got 'em riled up. They all began chanting, "Artemis! Artemis! Artemis!"
Contextual Overview
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
the men puttiden hoond, and ledden in Loth to hem, and thei closiden the dore.
And thei smyten with blyndenesse hem that weren withoutforth, fro the leest til to the moost; so that thei myyten not fynde the dore.
He hath set fruytful lond in to saltnesse; for the malice of men dwellyng ther ynne.
and delyuerid the iust Loth, oppressid of the wrong, and of the letcherouse conuersacioun of cursid men;
As Sodom, and Gomorre, and the nyy coostid citees, that in lijk maner diden fornycacioun, and yeden awei aftir othir fleisch, and ben maad ensaumple, suffrynge peyne of euerelastinge fier.
And it openede the pit of depnesse, and a smoke of the pit stiede vp, as the smoke of a greet furneis; and the sunne was derkid, and the eir, of the smoke of the pit.
And the kingis of the erthe schulen biwepe, and biweile hem silf on hir, whiche diden fornicacioun with hir, and lyueden in delicis, whanne thei schulen se the smoke of the brennyng of it;
and crieden, seynge the place of the brennyng of it, seiynge, What is lijk this greet citee?
And eft thei seiden, Alleluya. And the smoke of it stieth vp, in to worldis of worldis.
But to ferdful men, and vnbileueful, and cursid, and manquelleris, and fornycatouris, and to witchis, and worschiperis of idols, and to alle lieris, the part of hem shal be in the pool brennynge with fier and brymstoon, that is the secounde deth.
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.
