Acts 21:37-Acts 22:5 - Paul Permitted To Address The Crowd
37 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. 38 "Then you are not the Egyptian who in days gone by raised the four thousand assassins and led them out into the desert?"
39 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."
40 As he gave permission, Paul stood on the steps and motioned to the people. A great hush came over them, and he addressed them as follows in Hebrew.
1 "Brothers and fathers, listen to the defence I now make before you." 2 When they heard him addressing them in Hebrew they were all the more quiet. So he went on. 3 "I am a Jew, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel in all the strictness of our ancestral Law, ardent for God as you all are to-day. 4 I persecuted this Way of religion to the death, chaining and imprisoning both men and women, 5 as the high priest and all the council of elders can testify. It was from them that I got letters to the brotherhood at Damascus, and then journeyed thither to bind those who had gathered there and bring them back to Jerusalem for punishment.