Acts 21:28-39

²⁸Crying out, Men of Israel, come to our help: this is the man who is teaching all men everywhere against the people and the law and this place: and in addition, he has taken Greeks into the Temple, and made this holy place unclean.

²⁹For they had seen him before in the town with Trophimus of Ephesus, and had the idea that Paul had taken him with him into the Temple.

³⁰And all the town was moved, and the people came running together and put their hands on Paul, pulling him out of the Temple: and then the doors were shut.

³¹And while they were attempting to put him to death, news came to the chief captain of the band that all Jerusalem was out of control.

³²And straight away he took some armed men and went quickly down to them: and the Jews, seeing them, gave no more blows to Paul.

³³Then the chief captain came near and took him, and gave orders for him to be put in chains, questioning them as to who he was and what he had done.

³⁴And some said one thing and some another, among the people: and as he was not able to get a knowledge of the facts because of the noise, he gave orders for Paul to be taken into the army building.

³⁵And when he came on to the steps, he was lifted up by the armed men, because of the force of the people;

³⁶For a great mass of people came after them, crying out, Away with him!

³⁷And when Paul was about to be taken into the building, he said to the chief captain, May I say something to you? And he said, Have you a knowledge of Greek?

³⁸Are you by chance the Egyptian who, before this, got the people worked up against the government and took four thousand men of the Assassins out into the waste land?

³⁹But Paul said, I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia, which is not an unimportant town: I make a request to you to let me say a word to the people.