Acts 19:28 When they heard this, they were furious and began shouting: "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
When they heard this, they were furious and began shouting: "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"

English Standard Version
When they heard this they were enraged and were crying out, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

New American Standard Bible
When they heard this and were filled with rage, they began crying out, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"

King James Bible
And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When they had heard this, they were filled with rage and began to cry out, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"

International Standard Version
When they heard this, they became furious and began to shout, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"

American Standard Version
And when they heard this they were filled with wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesus.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Having heard these things, they were full of anger, and cried out, saying: Great is Diana of the Ephesians.

Darby Bible Translation
And having heard this, and being filled with rage, they cried out, saying, Great is Artemis of the Ephesians.

Young's Literal Translation
And they having heard, and having become full of wrath, were crying out, saying, 'Great is the Artemis of the Ephesians!'

Cross References

Matthew 2:16
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.

Acts 18:19
And he came to Ephesus, and left them there: but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.

Acts 19:24
For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain to the craftsmen;

Acts 19:34
But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice about the space of two hours cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

19:21-31 Persons who came from afar to pay their devotions at the temple of Ephesus, bought little silver shrines, or models of the temple, to carry home with them. See how craftsmen make advantage to themselves of people's superstition, and serve their worldly ends by it. Men are jealous for that by which they get their wealth; and many set themselves against the gospel of Christ, because it calls men from all unlawful crafts, however much wealth is to be gotten by them. There are persons who will stickle for what is most grossly absurd, unreasonable, and false; as this, that those are gods which are made with hands, if it has but worldly interest on its side. The whole city was full of confusion, the common and natural effect of zeal for false religion. Zeal for the honour of Christ, and love to the brethren, encourage zealous believers to venture into danger. Friends will often be raised up among those who are strangers to true religion, but have observed the honest and consistent behaviour of Christians.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

28, 29. Great is Diana of the Ephesians—the civic cry of a populace so proud of their temple that they refused to inscribe on it the name of Alexander the Great, though he offered them the whole spoil of his Eastern campaign if they would do it [Strabo in Howson].