Acts 21:33-40

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

37As Paul was about to be brought into 10the barracks, he said to the commander, “May I say something to you?” And he said, “Do you know Greek? 38Then you are not 11the Egyptian who some 12time ago stirred up a revolt and led the four thousand men of the Assassins out 13into the wilderness?” 39But Paul said, “14I am a Jew of Tarsus in 15Cilicia, 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 16the stairs, 17motioned to the people with his hand; and when there 18was a great silence, he spoke to them in the 1920Hebrew dialect, saying,