Acts 21:32-40

32He immediately 1took along some soldiers and centurions and ran down to 2the crowd; and when they saw the commander and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul. 33Then the commander came up and took hold of him, and ordered that he be 3bound with 4two chains; and he began asking who he was and what he had done. 34But among the crowd, 5some were shouting one thing and some another, and when he could not find out the 6facts because of the uproar, he ordered that 7Paul be brought into 8the barracks. 35When Paul got to 9the stairs, it came about that he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the 10mob; 36for the multitude of people kept following them, shouting, “11Away with him!”

37As Paul was about to be brought into 12the barracks, he said to the commander, “May I say something to you?” And he said, “Do you know Greek? 38Then you are not 13the Egyptian who some 14time ago stirred up a revolt and led the four thousand men of the Assassins out 15into the wilderness?” 39But Paul said, “16I am a Jew of Tarsus in 17Cilicia, 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 18the stairs, 19motioned to the people with his hand; and when there 20was a great silence, he spoke to them in the 2122Hebrew dialect, saying,