Acts 21:37-Acts 22:5 - Paul Permitted To Address The Crowd
37 And being about to be brought into the camp, Paul says to the captain of a thousand, Is it lawful for me to speak anything to thee? and he said, Hast thou knowledge in Greek? 38 Art not thou then the Egyptian, who before these days having risen up, and having brought into the desert four thousand men of murderers?
39 And Paul said, I am truly a man a Jew, a Tarsean of Cilicia, a citizen of no undistinguished city: and I beseech of thee to give way for me to speak to the people.
40 And having given way, Paul standing upon the steps, shook with the hand to the people. And being much silence, he spake in the Hebrew dialect, saying,
1 Men, brethren, and fathers, hear my defence to you. 2 (And having heard that he spake to them in Hebrew dialect, they held more silence: and he says,) 3 I am truly a Jew, a man born in Tarsus, of Cilicia, and brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the exactness of the fathers' law, being zealous of God, as all ye are this day. 4 Who drove out this way even to death, binding and delivering to prison both men and women. 5 As also the chief priest testifies of me, and all the council of elders: and whose letters to the brethren having received, I went to Damascus, going to bring there the bound to Jerusalem, that they might be punished.