Acts 21:33-40

33Then the 1commander came up and took hold of him, and ordered him to be 2bound with 3two chains; and he began asking who he was and what he had done. 34But among the crowd 4some were shouting one thing and some another, and when he could not find out the 5facts because of the uproar, he ordered him to be brought into 6the barracks. 35When he got to 7the stairs, he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the 8mob; 36for the multitude of the people kept following them, shouting, “9Away with him!”

37As Paul was about to be brought into 10the barracks, he said to the 11commander, “May I say something to you?” And he said, “Do you know Greek? 38Then you are not 12the Egyptian who some 13time ago stirred up a revolt and led the four thousand men of the Assassins out 14into the wilderness?” 39But Paul said, “15I am a Jew of Tarsus in 16Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city; and I beg you, allow me to speak to the people.” 40When he had given him permission, Paul, standing on 17the stairs, 18motioned to the people with his hand; and when there 19was a great hush, he spoke to them in the 2021Hebrew dialect, saying,