Then the Levites quieted all the people saying, "Be quiet, for this day is holy. Do not grieve."

After the city secretary quieted the crowd, he said, "Men of Ephesus, what person is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is the keeper of the temple of the great Artemis and of her image that fell from heaven?

(When they heard that he was addressing them in Aramaic, they became even quieter.) Then Paul said,