Acts 21:37-Acts 22:5 - Paul Permitted To Address The Crowd
37 As he was about to be taken into the barracks, Paul said to the colonel, "May I say something to you?" The colonel asked, "Do you know Greek? 38 Are you not the Egyptian who sometime ago raised a mob of four thousand cut-throats and led them out into the desert?"
39 Paul answered, "I am a Jew from Tarsus, in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. Please let me speak to the people."
40 He granted the request, and Paul, as he was standing on the steps, made a gesture to the people, and after everybody had quieted down, he spoke to them in Hebrew as follows:
1 "Brothers and fathers, listen now to what I have to say in my defense." 2 When they heard him speaking to them in Hebrew, they became even more quiet, and he continued: 3 "I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up here in this city, and carefully educated under the teaching of Gamaliel in the law of our forefathers. I was zealous for God, as all of you are today. 4 I persecuted this Way even to the death, and kept on binding both men and women and putting them in jail, 5 as the high priest and the whole council will bear me witness. Indeed, I had received letters from them to the brothers in Damascus, and I was on the way there to bind those who were there and bring them back to Jerusalem to be punished.