However, so this does not spread any further among the people, let’s threaten them against speaking to anyone in this name again.”

They also presented false witnesses who said, “This man does not stop speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

However, the Most High does not dwell in sanctuaries made with hands, as the prophet says:

Now the Scripture passage he was reading was this:

He was led like a sheep to the slaughter,
and as a lamb is silent before its shearer,
so He does not open His mouth.

Then Peter began to speak: “Now I really understand that God doesn’t show favoritism,

but in every nation the person who fears Him and does righteousness is acceptable to Him.

So beware that what is said in the prophets does not happen to you:

so the rest of humanity
may seek the Lord—
even all the Gentiles
who are called by My name,
declares the Lord who does these things,

The God who made the world and everything in it—He is Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in shrines made by hands.

However, when the city clerk had calmed the crowd down, he said, “Men of Ephesus! What man is there who doesn’t know that the city of the Ephesians is the temple guardian of the great Artemis, and of the image that fell from heaven?

When the local people saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “This man is probably a murderer, and though he has escaped the sea, Justice does not allow him to live!”