24 For someone named[a] Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver replicas of the temple of Artemis, was bringing no little business to the craftsmen. 25 These[b] he gathered together, and the workers occupied with such things, and[c] said, “Men, you know that from this business we get our prosperity,[d] 26 and you see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost all of Asia[e] this man Paul has persuaded and[f] turned away a large crowd by[g] saying that the gods made by hands are not gods.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 19:24 Literally “by name”
  2. Acts 19:25 Literally “whom”
  3. Acts 19:25 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“gathered together”) has been translated as a finite verb
  4. Acts 19:25 Literally “prosperity is to us”
  5. Acts 19:26 A reference to the Roman province of Asia (modern Asia Minor)
  6. Acts 19:26 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“has persuaded”) has been translated as a finite verb
  7. Acts 19:26 Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“saying”) which is understood as means