Acts 21:37-Acts 22:5 - Paul Permitted To Address The Crowd
37 Just as they were going to take him into the barracks, Paul said to the colonel, "May I say something to you?" "Do you know Greek?" the colonel asked. 38 "Are you not the Egyptian who some time ago raised the four thousand cut-throats and led them out into the desert?"
39 "I am a Jew," Paul answered, "from Tarsus, in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. I beg you to let me speak to the people."
40 He gave him permission, and Paul standing on the steps made a gesture to the people, and when they had become quiet he spoke to them in Hebrew.
1 "Brothers and fathers," he said, "listen to what I have to say in my defense." 2 When they heard him speak to them in Hebrew, they became even more quiet, and he said, 3 "I am a Jew, and I was born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but was brought up here in this city, and thoroughly educated under the teaching of Gamaliel in the Law of our forefathers. I was zealous for God, just as all of you are today. 4 I persecuted this Way even to the death, and bound both men and women and put them in prison, 5 as the high priest and the whole council will bear me witness. In fact, they gave me letters to the brothers in Damascus and I went there to bind those who were there and bring them back to Jerusalem to be punished.