Day after day they regularly attended the temple; they practiced breaking their bread together in their homes, and eating their food with glad and simple hearts,

Peter and John were on their way up to the temple at the three o'clock hour of prayer,

when a man crippled from his birth was being carried by, who used to be laid every day at what was called The Beautiful Gate of the temple, to beg from people on their way into the temple.

So when he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked them to give him something.

and at once he leaped to his feet and started walking; then he went into the temple with them, walking, leaping, and praising God.

and recognized him as the very man who used to sit at The Beautiful Gate of the temple to beg, they were completely astounded and bewildered at what occurred to him.

While they were talking to the people, the high priests, the military commander of the temple, and the Sadducees came down upon them,

"Go and take your stand in the temple square and continue to tell the people the message of this new life."

So they obeyed, and about the break of day they went into the temple square and began to teach. The high priest and his party arrived and called a meeting of the council and the whole senate of the sons of Israel, and sent to the prison to have the men brought in.

When the military commander of the temple square and the high priest heard this, they were utterly at a loss to know how this might turn out.

But somebody came by and reported to them, "The men that you put in jail are standing right here in the temple square, teaching the people."

and not for a single day did they stop teaching in the temple square and in private houses the good news of Jesus the Christ.

The priest of the temple of Zeus, which stood at the entrance to the town, came with crowds of people to the gates, bringing bulls and garlands; he meant to offer sacrifices to them.

The God who made the world and all that it contains, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made by human hands,

Now the danger facing us is, not only that our business will lose its reputation but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be brought into contempt and that she whom all Asia and all the world now worship will soon be dethroned from her majestic glory!"

At last the city recorder quieted the mob and said: "Men of Ephesus, who in the world does not know that the city of Ephesus is the guardian of the temple of the great Artemis and of the image that fell down from heaven?

Then Paul took the men along with him and on the next day went into the temple with them, purified, and announced the time when the purification would be completed, when the sacrifice for each one of them could be offered.

As the seven days were drawing to a close, the Jews from Asia caught a glimpse of him in the temple and began to stir up all the crowd, and seized him,

as they kept shouting, "Men of Israel, help! help! This is the man who teaches everybody everywhere against our people and the law and this place; yea, more than that, he has actually brought Greeks into the temple and desecrated this sacred place."

For they had previously seen Trophimus of Ephesus in the city with him, and so they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.

The whole city was stirred with excitement, and all at once the people rushed together, and seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple, and its gates at once were shut.

After I had come back to Jerusalem, one day while I was praying in the temple, I fell into a trance,

once he tried to desecrate the temple, but we arrested him,

and they have never found me debating with anybody in the temple nor making a disturbance in the synagogues or about the city,

While I was performing these duties they found me just as I had completed the rites of my purification in the temple; however, there was no crowd with me and no disturbance at all.

Paul continued to maintain, in his defense, "I have committed no offense against the Jewish law or temple or against the emperor."

For these very things the Jews arrested me in the temple and kept on trying to kill me.