And the whole city was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel, they rushed with one accord into the theatre.
And the [whole] city (probably "whole" is not genuine) was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel - being disappointed of Paul himself; just as at Thessalonica they laid hands on Jason (Acts 17:5-6). The fellow-travelers of the apostle here named are also mentioned in Acts 20:4; Acts 27:2; Romans 16:23; 1 Corinthians 1:14; and probably in 3 John. If it was in the house of Aquila and Priscilla (whom Paul left at Ephesus on his first incidental visit to it, Acts 18:19) that the apostle now found an asylum from the fury of the Ephesian mob, that would explain what he says of them in Romans 16:3-4 that "for his life they laid down their own necks."
They rushed with one accord into the theater - a vast pile (see p. 142) whose ruins are even now a wreck of immense grandeur.