If after all there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords),

Jesus answered, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods’?

So when the crowds saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have come down to us in human form!”

And you see and hear that this Paul has persuaded and turned away a large crowd, not only in Ephesus but in practically all of the province of Asia, by saying that gods made by hands are not gods at all.