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## Acts 19:38-39 in Context (Verses 35–41 KJV)
 
 [35 ](/kjv/acts/19/35) And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, *Ye* men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the *image* which fell down from Jupiter?
 
 [36 ](/kjv/acts/19/36) Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.
 
 [37 ](/kjv/acts/19/37) For ye have brought hither these men, which are neither robbers of churches, nor yet blasphemers of your goddess.
 
 [38 ](/kjv/acts/19/38) Wherefore if Demetrius, and the craftsmen which are with him, have a matter against any man, the law is open, and there are deputies: let them implead one another.
 
 [39 ](/kjv/acts/19/39) But if ye enquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall be determined in a lawful assembly.
 
 [40 ](/kjv/acts/19/40) For we are in danger to be called in question for this day’s uproar, there being no cause whereby we may give an account of this concourse.
 
 [41 ](/kjv/acts/19/41) And when he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.
 
[Acts 18](/kjv/acts/18) [Acts 20](/kjv/acts/20)

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