Acts 19:28
New International Version
When they heard this, they were furious and began shouting: “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

New Living Translation
At this their anger boiled, and they 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!”

Berean Standard Bible
When the men heard this, they were enraged and began shouting, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

Berean Literal Bible
And having heard, and having become full of rage, they were 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.

New King James Version
Now when they heard this, they were full of wrath and cried out, saying, “Great is Diana of the Ephesians!”

New American Standard Bible
When they heard this and were filled with rage, they began shouting, saying, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

NASB 1995
When they heard this and were filled with rage, they began crying out, saying, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

NASB 1977
And when they heard this and were filled with rage, they began crying out, saying, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

Legacy Standard Bible
When they heard this and were filled with rage, they began crying out, saying, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

Amplified Bible
When they heard this, they were filled with rage, and they began shouting, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

Christian Standard Bible
When they had heard this, they were filled with rage and began to cry out, “Great is Artemis 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!”

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And when they heard these things, they were filled with rage and were crying out and saying, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

Contemporary English Version
When the workers heard this, they got angry and started shouting, "Great is Artemis, the goddess of the Ephesians!"

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

English Revised Version
And when they heard this, they were filled with wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
When Demetrius' workers and the others heard this, they became furious and began shouting, "Artemis of the Ephesians is great!"

Good News Translation
As the crowd heard these words, they became furious and started shouting, "Great is Artemis of Ephesus!"

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

Literal Standard Version
And having heard, and having become full of wrath, they were crying out, saying, “Great [is] the Artemis of the Ephesians!”

Majority Standard Bible
When the men heard this, they were enraged and began shouting, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

New American Bible
When they heard this, they were filled with fury and began to shout, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

NET Bible
When they heard this they became enraged and began to shout, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"

New Revised Standard Version
When they heard this, they were enraged and shouted, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

New Heart English Bible
When they heard this they were filled with anger, and began to shout, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians."

Webster's Bible Translation
And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.

Weymouth New Testament
After listening to this harangue, they became furiously angry and kept calling out, "Great is the Ephesian Diana!"

World English Bible
When they heard this they were filled with anger, and 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!'

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Riot in Ephesus
27There is danger not only that our business will fall into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be discredited and her majesty deposed—she who is worshiped by all the province of Asia and the whole world.” 28When the men heard this, they were enraged and began shouting, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!” 29Soon the whole city was in disarray. They rushed together into the theatre, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, Paul’s traveling companions from Macedonia.…

Cross References
Matthew 2:16
When Herod saw that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was filled with rage. Sending orders, he put to death all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, according to the time he had learned from the Magi.

Acts 18:19
When they reached Ephesus, Paul parted ways with Priscilla and Aquila. He himself went into the synagogue there and reasoned with the Jews.

Acts 19:24
It began with a silversmith named Demetrius who made silver shrines of Artemis, bringing much business to the craftsmen.

Acts 19:34
But when they realized that he was a Jew, they all shouted in unison for about two hours: "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"


Treasury of Scripture

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

they.

Acts 7:54
When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.

Acts 16:19-24
And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers, …

Acts 21:28-31
Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place…

and cried.

Acts 19:34,35
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…

1 Samuel 5:3-5
And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again…

1 Kings 18:26-29
And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made…

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Acts 19
1. The Holy Spirit is given by Paul's hands.
8. The Jews blaspheme his doctrine, which is confirmed by miracles.
13. The Jewish exorcists,
16. are beaten by a man who had an evil spirit.
19. Conjuring books are burnt.
21. Demetrius, for love of gain, raises an uproar against Paul;
35. which is appeased by the town clerk.














(28) They were full of wrath, and cried out.--Better, they went on crying out, the tense implying continued action.

Great is Diana of the Ephesians.--The cry was probably the usual chorus of the festivals of Artemis. Stress was now laid on the distinctive adjective, "Great she was, whoever might attack her greatness."

Verse 28. - This for these sayings, A.V.; filled with wrath for full of wrath, A.V. Great is Diana, etc. A notable instance of assertion and clamor crying down reason and truth.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
[When]
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

[the men] heard [this],
Ἀκούσαντες (Akousantes)
Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 191: To hear, listen, comprehend by hearing; pass: is heard, reported. A primary verb; to hear.

they were
γενόμενοι (genomenoi)
Verb - Aorist Participle Middle - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 1096: A prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb; to cause to be, i.e. to become, used with great latitude.

enraged
θυμοῦ (thymou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 2372: An outburst of passion, wrath. From thuo; passion.

[and] began shouting,
ἔκραζον (ekrazon)
Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 2896: To cry aloud, shriek. A primary verb; properly, to 'croak' or scream, i.e. to call aloud.

“Great [is]
Μεγάλη (Megalē)
Adjective - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3173: Large, great, in the widest sense.

Artemis
Ἄρτεμις (Artemis)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 735: Probably from the same as artemon; prompt; Artemis, the name of a Grecian goddess borrowed by the Asiatics for one of their deities.

of [the] Ephesians!”
Ἐφεσίων (Ephesiōn)
Adjective - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's 2180: Ephesian, of Ephesus. From Ephesos; an Ephesian or inhabitant of Ephesus.


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