Acts 19:28 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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

And when they heard these saying, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians. This was the civic cry of a populace so proud of their temple that (as Strabo says) 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.

Acts 19:28

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