Acts 19:30

(Paul wanted to enter the popular assembly, but the disciples would not allow him.

But when the apostles, Paul and Barnabas, heard this they rent their clothes and sprang out among the crowd,

So Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus and said, "Men of Athens, I observe at every turn that you are a most religious people.

Paul said, "I am a Jew, a native of Tarsus in Cilicia, the citizen of a famous town. Pray let me speak to the people."

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And when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the disciples suffered him not.

But when the apostles, Paul and Barnabas, heard this they rent their clothes and sprang out among the crowd,

So Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus and said, "Men of Athens, I observe at every turn that you are a most religious people.

Paul said, "I am a Jew, a native of Tarsus in Cilicia, the citizen of a famous town. Pray let me speak to the people."

Just as he was being taken into the barracks, Paul said to the commander, "May I say a word to you?" "You know Greek!" said the commander.