So that not only is this our craft in danger of coming into disgrace; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana would be despised, and her magnificence would be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worships.
For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he did not want to spend the time in Asia: for he was hurrying, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem for the day of Pentecost.