Acts 21:30-39

³⁰The whole city was aroused and a mob of people formed. So having seized Paul they dragged him out of the temple, and immediately the doors were shut.

³¹As they were trying to kill him, news came to the commander of the garrison that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

³²He immediately took soldiers and centurions and ran down among them, and when they saw the commander and the soldiers they stopped beating Paul.

³³Then the commander came up and took hold of him, commanded that he be bound with two chains, and started inquiring who he was and what he had done.

³⁴Well some in the crowd shouted one thing and some another; so when he could not ascertain the truth, because of the uproar, he commanded him to be taken into the barracks.

³⁵When he reached the stairs, he had to be carried by the soldiers, because of the violence of the mob.

³⁶Because the crowd kept following and shouting, “Away with him!”

³⁷As Paul was about to be led into the barracks, he said to the commander, “May I speak to you?” So he said: “Do you know Greek?

³⁸Aren't you the Egyptian who some time ago started a revolt and led the four thousand men of ‘the Assassins’ out into the wilderness?”

³⁹But Paul said, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of a not insignificant city; but I beg you, allow me to speak to the people.”