The New Testament: A Translation

by David Bentley Hart

24For a certain silversmith by the name of Demetrius, who fashioned silver shrines to Artemis, provided no little trade for artisans—25whom he convened, along with workers in related trades, and said, “Men, you are aware that our earnings come from this trade, 26and you see and hear how this fellow Paul, not only in Ephesus but in practically all of Asia, has persuaded and perverted a considerable throng, saying that they whom hands bring into being are not gods. 27Now, the danger is not only that our business might come into disrepute, but that the Temple of the great goddess Artemisal might be esteemed as nothing, and that it is even about to be deprived of the magnificence proper to her whom the whole of Asia and the inhabited earth adores.” 28And hearing this, and filled with passion, they cried out, saying, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”