Acts 21:37-Acts 22:5 - Paul Permitted To Address The Crowd
37 And as Paul was about to be led into the fortress, he said to the chiliarch, Is it lawful for me to say a thing to you? And he said, Do you know Greek? 38 Then are you not the Egyptian who before these days caused a riot, and led four thousand men of the assassins out into the wilderness?
39 But Paul said, I am a man, a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no small city. And I beseech you, allow me to speak to the people.
40 And he allowing him, standing on the stairs, Paul signaled with his hand to the people. And much silence taking place, he spoke in the Hebrew dialect, saying:
1 Men, brothers and fathers! Hear my defense now to you. 2 And hearing that he spoke to them in the Hebrew dialect, they all the more kept silence. And he said, 3 I am truly a man, a Jew born in Tarsus in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the exactness of the Law of the fathers, being a zealous one of God, as you all are today. 4 I persecuted this Way as far as death, binding and delivering both men and women into prisons; 5 as also the high priest bears witness to me, and all the elderhood. And receiving letters from them to the brothers, I traveled into Damascus indeed to lead those being bound to Jerusalem, in order that they might be punished.