It fortuned / whyll Appollo was at Corinthum / ^note that Paul passed thorow the vpper costes ∧ came to Ephesus / ∧ fo&ubar;de certayne disciples and sayd vnto them: A   have ye receaved the holy gost sence ye beleved? And they sayde vnto him: no we have not hearde whether ther be eny holy goost or no. And he sayd vnto them: wher &wt; were ye then baptised? ^noteAnd they sayd: with Iohns baptim Then sayde Paul: Iohn verely bapiised with the baptim of repentaunce / sayinge vnto the people that they shuld beleve on him which shuld come after him: that is on Christ Iesus. When they hearde that / they were baptised

in the name of the lorde Iesu. And Paul layde his hondes apon them / ^note ∧ the holy gost came on them / and they spake with tonges / ∧ prophesied / ∧ all the men were aboute .xii.

B   And he went into the synagoge / ∧ behaved him selfe boldely for the space of thre monethes / disputynge and gevynge them exhortacions of the kyngdome of God. &cross2; When dyvers wexed harde herted and beleved not / but spake evyll of the waye / and that before the multitude: he departed from them / and seperated the disciples. And disputed dayly in þe; scole of one called Tyr&abar;nus. And this contynued by the space of two yeares: so þt; all they which dwelt in Asia / hearde the worde of the lorde Iesu / bothe Iewes ∧ Grekes. And god wrought no small miracles by the hondes of Paul: ^note so that from his body / were brought vnto the sicke / napkyns or partlettes / and the diseases departed from th&ebar; / and the evyll spretes went out of them.

C   Then certayne of the vagabounde Iewes exorcistes / toke apon them to call over them which had evyll spretes / the name of the lorde Iesus sayinge: We adiure you by Iesu wh&obar; Paul preacheth. And ther were seven sonnes of one Sceva a Iewe ∧ chefe of the prestes which dyd so. And the evyll sprete answered ∧ sayde: Iesus I knowe / ∧ Paul I knowe: but who are ye? And þe; man in wh&obar; the evyll sprete was / ranne on th&ebar; / and overcame th&ebar; / ∧ prevayled agaynst them / so that they fledde out of that housse naked ∧ wo&ubar;ded. And this was

knowen to all þe; Iewes ∧ Grekes also / which dwelt at Ephesus / ∧ feare came on them all / ∧ they magnified the name of þe; lorde Iesus.

And many þt; beleved / came ∧ confessed ∧ shewed their workes. D   Many of th&ebar; which vsed curious craftes / brought their bokes ∧ burned th&ebar; before all men / ∧ they counted the price of th&ebar; ∧ fo&ubar;de it fifty thousande ^note silverlynges. So myghtely grewe þe; worde of god / ∧ prevayled. After these thinges were ended / Paul purposed in the sprete / to passe over Macedonia ∧ Achaia / ∧ to goo to Ierusalem saying: After I have bene there / I must also se Rome. So sent he into Macedonia two of th&ebar; that ministred vnto him Timotheus and Erastus: but he him selfe remayned in Asia for a season.

E   The same tyme ther arose no lytell a do aboute that waye. For a certayne man named Demetrius / a silvermyth / ^note which made silver schrynes for Diana / was not a lytell beneficiall vnto the craftes men. Which he called to geder with the worke men of lyke occupacion / and sayd: Syrs / ye knowe that by this crafte we have vauntage. Moreover ye se and heare that not alone at Ephesus / but almost thorowe oute all Asia / this Paul hath persuaded ∧ turned awaye moche people / saying þt; they be not goddes which are made &wt; hondes. So that not only this oure crafte cometh into parell to be set at nought: but also that þe; temple of þe; greate goddas Diana shuld be despysed / ∧ her magnificence shuld be destroyed which all Asia / and the worlde worshippeth.

When they hearde these sayinges / they were full of wrathe / ∧ cryed out saying: Greate is Diana of the Ephesians. And all the cite was on a roore / ∧ they russhed in to the comen hall with one assent / F   ∧ caught Gayus ∧ Aristarcus / men of Macedonia / Pauls compani&obar;s. When Paul wolde have entred in vnto the people / þe; disciples suffered him not. Certayne also of þe; chefe of Asia which were his frendes / sent vnto him / desyrynge him that he wolde not preace into the comen hall. Some cryed one thinge ∧ some another / ∧ the congregacion was all out of quiet / ∧ þe; moare parte knewe not wherfore they were come togeder.

Some of the company drue forth Alexander / the Iewes thrustynge him forwardes. G   Alexander beckened with the honde / ∧ wolde have geven þe; people an answer. When they knewe þe; he was a Iewe / ther arose a shoute almost for the space of two houres / of all men cryinge / greate is Diana of the Ephesians.

When the toune clarcke had ceased the people / he sayd: ye men of Ephesus / what man is it that knoweth not how that the cite of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddas Diana / ∧ of þe; ymage which came fr&obar; heven. Seinge then þt; no man sayth here agaynst / ye ought to be content / ∧ to do nothinge rasshly: For ye have brought hyther these m&ebar; whiche are nether robbers of churches / nor yet despisers of youre goddes. Wherfore yf Demetrius and the craftes men which are &wt; him / have eny sayinge to eny man / the lawe is

open / and ther are ruelars / let th&ebar; accuse one another. Yf ye goo about eny other thinge / it maye be determined in a lawfull c&obar;gregacion For we are in ieoperdy to be accused of this dayes busines: for as moche as ther is no cause wherby we maye geve a rekenynge of this concourse of people. And when he had thus spoken / he let the congregacion departe.

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