WEB ▾Acts ▾21 ▾Acts 21:31-4031As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.32Immediately he took soldiers and centurions and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped beating Paul.33Then the commanding officer came near, arrested him, commanded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he was and what he had done.34Some shouted one thing and some another, among the crowd. When he couldn’t find out the truth because of the noise, he commanded him to be brought into the barracks.35When he came to the stairs, he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd;36for the multitude of the people followed after, crying out, “Away with him!”37As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he asked the commanding officer, “May I speak to you?” He said, “Do you know Greek?38Aren’t you then the Egyptian who before these days stirred up to sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the Assassins?”39But Paul said, “I am a Jew from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. I beg you, allow me to speak to the people.”40When he had given him permission, Paul, standing on the stairs, beckoned with his hand to the people. When there was a great silence, he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, saying,Acts 20Acts 21Acts 22