Acts 21:37-Acts 22:5 - Paul Permitted To Address The Crowd
37 just as he was entring into the castle, Paul said to the officer, may I be favour'd with a word? you can speak Greek then, said he? 38 are not you the Egyptian, who lately made an insurrection at the head of four thousand banditti in the desart?
39 Paul replied, I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of that famous city: and I beg you would give me leave to speak to the people: which being granted,
40 Paul then standing upon the stairs made a sign with his hand to the people, who being very silent, he rais'd his voice, and thus address'd them in the Hebrew tongue:
1 My brethren, and fathers, pray hear what I have to say for my self. 2 when they perceiv'd he talk'd Hebrew, they were the more silent. 3 then he said, I am a Jew, a native of Tarsus in Cilicia, but had my education in this city: at the feet of Gamaliel I was instructed in the law, and in the exact decisions of our fathers, and was as religiously zealous as you are at this time. 4 for I persecuted this sect even to death, throwing them into chains and prisons both men and women: 5 this the high-priest and the senate know too well: from them I receiv'd my warrant directed to the Jews of Damascus, where I went, to bring the converts there in chains to Jerusalem, in order to be punished.