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Oct 1, 2024 · According to the silversmith Demetrius in Acts 19, the mission of Paul at Ephesus threatened the reputation of Artemis’s cult. Photo: Jordan Pickett. According to Acts, the riot would have occurred at the end of the missionary visit of Paul at Ephesus (around 55 or 56 C.E.).
How accurate is Luke’s account of the Ephesus riot described in Acts 19:23–41? Excavations at the site bring this Biblical event to reality in a new way—from inscriptions and figurines of the goddess Artemis to the theater where the riot took place.
Sep 9, 2014 · In the first case, the correct response to the church is presented in Ephesus where the riot ends in a quick and orderly manner. In the second case, the incorrect response is presented in Jerusalem where the disorder spreads to the local government, forcing the Roman military to intervene.
Oct 5, 2023 · The chaos that erupted in the city and generated the riot in the theater illustrates the ultimate end of clinging to our own means of security rather than submitting to God as the highest authority. This event demonstrates the frailty and insecurity of living outside of God’s leadership.
Why did Paul depart from the Jews in the synagogue thereafter? Some not only "were hardened and did not believe" (Acts 19:8) but also began to try to turn the general population of Ephesus against Christianity: "spoke evil of the Way before the multitude" (Acts 19:9). After harvesting in the Jewish synagogue, God was about to harvest in the ...
The Riot in Ephesus - About that time there arose a great disturbance about the Way. A silversmith named Demetrius, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought in a lot of business for the craftsmen ...
May 21, 2019 · The sanctity of Jerusalem in Islam – be it the city as a whole, or specific places in and around it – derived from two types of narratives: those which originated in the Judeo-Christian religious history, and those which came from the newly formed Islamic tradition.
