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Archeology Proves Truth of Luke’s Account of The Riots in Ephesus

September 16, 2018 By CFT Team -- 4 Comments

Archeology Supports Luke's Account of The Riots in Ephesus

Archeologists have uncovered a number of significant artifacts in support of Luke’s account in the Book of Acts of how the silversmiths in Ephesus incited a riot in protest of Paul’s early Christian teachings there:

According to Acts 19:8-10, the apostle Paul spent more than two years in Ephesus during the A.D. 50s. Situated near the coast of today’s Turkey, Ephesus was a significant seaport at the time. It was also the capital of Roman Asia, with a population of roughly 200,000 (which ranked it among the largest cities of the Roman Empire). Accordingly, it provided an excellent base of operations for Paul’s apostolic ministry.

According to Acts 19:23-41, a wealthy silversmith in Ephesus named Demetrius conjured up a riot against Paul and some of his missionary associates. Their preaching, said Demetrius, attuning his rhetoric to traditional Ephesian values as well as to Ephesian fears and insecurities, was a threat to the wealth and prestige of the great temple of Diana or Artemis — which, according to most ancient lists, was one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Not coincidentally, it was also a threat to the income of local silversmiths, who sold “silver shrines” of the goddess to the many pilgrims who visited that temple. Paul, though, dangerously taught that “they be no gods, which are made with hands” (see Acts 19:26).

“Enraged,” says the Western text of Acts (which is approximately 10 percent longer than the Alexandrian text that modern translations typically use), Demetrius’ audience “ran into the street.” Others, perhaps not even understanding what was afoot, joined the mob, which grabbed some of Paul’s companions and hauled them into the theater.

In 1984, a 3.5-foot monument was discovered on the street that connects the theater of Ephesus with the city’s ancient stadium. Dating to the late second or early third century, the monument was dedicated to one Valerius Festus by the guild of Ephesian silversmiths — the very group that, slightly more than a century before, had played a central role in the riot described by Luke in Acts 19.

The inscription on the monument contains language that’s reminiscent of the account in Acts. When, for instance, in Acts 19:35, the “townclerk” (as the King James Version calls him) speaks of Ephesus as the “temple keeper” or “temple guardian” (King James: “worshiper”) of the goddess Artemis (King James: “Diana”), he uses a Greek term (“neokoros”), almost unique to Ephesus, that also appears in the silversmiths’ monument.

The King James phrase “certain of the chief of Asia” (Acts 19:31) translates an original Greek clause (“certain of the Asiarchs”) that uses a word (“Asiarkhoi”) found nowhere else in the New Testament but prominent in inscriptions throughout the ruins of Ephesus. One of the “Asiarchs” appearing in the inscriptional evidence is also called a “secretary” or “grammataeus,” which is the same word that Luke uses in Acts 19:35 for the “townclerk” (as the King James translation renders it) who manages to still the crowd and dismiss them from the theater.

This “grammateus” warns the mob against their unlawful assembly (19:32, 39, 40), using the word “ekklesia.” Everywhere else in the New Testament, “ekklesia” means “church.” Here, though, it conveys the classical Greek sense of a secular meeting, just as we might expect a pagan Roman official to use it.

In 1890, William Ramsay, a leading authority in his day on the history and geography of Asia Minor, argued (refuting a critic who dismissed Acts 19 as fiction) that Luke’s account of Paul’s riot is “vivid and true to the situation and surroundings.”

Today, says Edwards, Ramsay’s words are even more justified. And Luke’s claim to have thoroughly investigated what he recounts in Luke-Acts passes yet another test.

It’s remarkable how many of the events described in the New Testament, which have been dismissed as fiction at one time or another, have turned out to be confirmed by objective archeological evidence.  And yet the scoffers continue to look for even the smallest pieces of evidence to undermine its integrity.

If the New Testament were fiction, it would have been proven to be so by now — after two thousand years of investigation.  And there is a huge financial incentive to prove it false — especially by the well-funded jewish archeologists who would become world-famous for proving that the story of Christ and His followers was false.

The Jew who could prove Christ to be a fiction would become a jewish messiah — the hero who hands the world to the Jews on a silver platter.


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  1. Ioannis Petridis

    January 17, 2019 at 1:48 am

    the only CERTAIN proof all this may provide is that the writer of the “saul’s” portion of the gospel had good knowledge of roman terminology and events of the period…

    nothing else

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  2. Mike

    September 16, 2018 at 10:06 pm

    With every turn of the archaeologists spade, the truth of the Scriptures is continually being confirmed and validated. This brings me to question why my White Nationalist and Pagan brothers are so opposed to the truth of Yahweh.
    Why do they believe the Jewish claim that Jews are the Biblical Israelites, when (((they))) lie about everything else?

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    • Hard case

      September 17, 2018 at 3:21 am

      Having had many online discussions with said brothers over the years, it is painfully apparent to me that it comes down to a deliberate blindness, deafness, and dumbness. They refuse to accept the responsibility of what it means to be a child of God. They still want to do things their way. Most still want that asian chick to ‘bang’ on the side, so to speak. They don’t want reminded that their indiscrepancies are not acceptable. They want to demand a homogenous nation, but refuse to understand what it takes to keep it! Being a child of God bears great responsibility, and even non-christian whites recognize it, if not subconsciously. Only the jew would turn such a ‘position’ into a source of blackmail…

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  3. Robert Tannen

    September 16, 2018 at 3:12 pm

    It is apparent that the truth is meaningless to those not looking for it. For over half of my life, I have compiled undeniable facts and figures to support my arguments in favor of Christian values. For almost the last ten years, I have provided irrefutable evidence in support of the historicity of the Bible and how it corrolates to what is happening today. Most people’s reactions, to this very day, are reminiscent of my first experience with black people…

    4th grade, St. Lawrence Catholic School in downtown Harrisburg, capitol of Pennsylvania. A black boy refused to listen to directions from our teacher, a nun. He went so far as to place his hands over his ears, shut his eyes, and hummed at the top of his voice. What happened next is what I wish I could do to every deliberately deaf, dumb, and blind person: the nun (who was white, and for her sake will remain anonymous here) stood up, pushed her sleeve back, stomped over to the still unsuspecting black boy, and clocked him in the head, knocking him out of his seat!

    May that be an allusion of things to come…

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