Acts 19:35-40

At last the city clerk. He ranked next to the mayor, and was sometimes "acting mayor." He is able to calm them and reason with them. Of the sacred atone. Meteorites were believed to be supernatural, and heathen priests often built religions around them. This one may have been carved into an image of Artemis. Other such sacred stones from heaven were: the Palladium of Troy; the Diana of Tauris; and the Pallas of Athens. You have brought these men. Gaius and Aristarchus (Acts 19:29). They had neither robbed temples nor said evil things about the goddess. If Demetrius. He must respect the "due process of law." For there is the danger. Roman authorities were severe to those who started riots (see Mark 15:7). Ephesus was a "free city," with its own government, but could loose this freedom for just such things as this riot.