Some of the crowd instructed Alexander, whom the Jews pushed forward, and he motioned with his hand, wanting to make a defense before the people.
In context
31and some of the officials of Asia who were his friends sent word urging him not to venture into the theater. 32Meanwhile some were shouting one thing and some another, for the assembly was in chaos and most of them did not know why they had come together. 33Some of the crowd instructed Alexander, whom the Jews pushed forward, and he motioned with his hand, wanting to make a defense before the people. 34But when they realized he was a Jew, one shout went up from them all, and for about two hours they cried, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!” 35At last the city clerk quieted the crowd. “Men of Ephesus,” he said, “is there anyone alive who does not know that the city of Ephesus is the guardian of the temple of the great Artemis and of the image that fell from heaven?
