Acts 21:36-38

Expanded Bible

³⁶ [^LFor] The whole mob was following them, shouting, “·Kill [or Away with] him!”

³⁷ As ·the soldiers [^Lthey] were about to take Paul into the ·army building [barracks], he spoke to the ·commander [tribune], “May I say something to you?”

·The commander [^LHe] said, “Do you speak Greek? ³⁸ ·I thought you were [^LAre you not…?] the Egyptian who started ·some trouble against the government [a revolt; an insurrection] ·not long ago [or some time ago; ^Caccording to the Jewish historian Josephus, the event occurred about three years prior to this] and led four thousand ·killers [terrorists; cut-throats; ^Lof the sicarii; ^CJosephus identifies sicarii (“dagger-men”) as assassins who mingled with crowds and used daggers to murder Romans and their collaborators] out to the desert.”