Acts 21:30-39

³⁰A lot of people everywhere in that city heard that there was trouble in God’s ceremony house, and they got up and ran there. They all grabbed Paul and dragged him outside. Then straight away the guards shut the gates of the temple.

³¹That mob started hitting Paul, trying to kill him. Somebody went to the big Roman boss and said, “Hey, the people in Jerusalem are going wild.”

³²So he quickly got a big mob of soldiers, and some of their bosses too, and they all ran to the mob that was hitting Paul. The mob saw the Roman soldiers and their big boss, so they stopped hitting Paul.

³³Then the big boss told his soldiers to grab Paul and tie him up with 2 chains. Then he asked that mob, “What did this man do?”

³⁴Some of the people there started shouting one thing, and some started shouting something else, and they kept shouting really loud. There was too much noise and the big boss couldn’t understand them. So he told the soldiers, “Take him into your big house.”

³⁵Then the soldiers took Paul away, and a lot of people followed them. Those people were trying to hit Paul all the time. They came to the steps of their big house and the boss told the soldiers to carry Paul up the steps into their house.

³⁶The mob kept shouting, “Kill him. Kill him.”

³⁷The soldiers started to take him into their house, but Paul talked to the boss in the Greek language. He said, “Can I talk to you?” The boss said, “Can you talk Greek?

³⁸I thought you were that man from Egypt country that wants to fight against us Romans. He was the man that took 4,000 murderers out into the desert with him, so we couldn’t catch him. You are that man, aren’t you?”

³⁹Paul said, “I’m not that man. I am a Jew. I was born in Tarsus, which is an important town in Cilicia country. Please, can I talk to these people?”