Acts 21:31-38

New International Version

³¹ While they were trying to kill him, news reached the commander of the Roman troops that the whole city of Jerusalem was in an uproar. ³² He at once took some officers and soldiers and ran down to the crowd. When the rioters saw the commander and his soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.^(A)

³³ The commander came up and arrested him and ordered him to be bound^(B) with two^(C) chains.^(D) Then he asked who he was and what he had done. ³⁴ Some in the crowd shouted one thing and some another,^(E) and since the commander could not get at the truth because of the uproar, he ordered that Paul be taken into the barracks.^{(F) 35} When Paul reached the steps,^(G) the violence of the mob was so great he had to be carried by the soldiers. ³⁶ The crowd that followed kept shouting, “Get rid of him!”^(H)

Paul Speaks to the Crowd^(I)

³⁷ As the soldiers were about to take Paul into the barracks,^(J) he asked the commander, “May I say something to you?”

“Do you speak Greek?” he replied. ³⁸ “Aren’t you the Egyptian who started a revolt and led four thousand terrorists out into the wilderness^(K) some time ago?”^(L)