Acts 19:29-34

29The city was filled with confusion. They rushed into the theater, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians who were travel companions of Paul.

30Paul was wishing to enter among the crowd, but the disciples would not let him.

31Some of the chiefs of Asia, being his friends, sent to him and begged him not to surrender himself in the theater.

32Now some cried out one thing, some another, for the assembly was in confusion. Most did not know why they had come together.

33Some of the crowd solicited Alexander, whom the Jewish people put forward. Alexander motioned with his hand. He wished to offer a defense to the crowd.

34But recognizing that he was Jewish, for about two hours they all with one voice cried out, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”