Acts 19:32

Some therefore, &c. As the craftsmen had not secured St Paul there was no central object to which attention could at once be called, and one general cry raised.

for the assembly was confused The confusion in the city (Acts 19:29) had become intensified by the rush to the theatre.

and the more part, &c. All that would be heard by many would be the shouts of the mob, from which nothing could be gathered about St Paul as the offender. Amid cries of "Artemis for ever" or "Hurrah for Demetrius," little would be learnt of how the tumult had begun.