Acts 21:37-Acts 22:5 - Paul Permitted To Address The Crowd
37 And being about to be carried into the fortress, Paul said to the chiliarch, May I have permission to speak to you? And he said, Do you understand Greek? 38 Are you not the Egyptian who before these days excited a sedition, and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men who were murderers?
39 And Paul said, I am a Jew, of Tarsus of Cilicia, a citizen of a not undistinguished city, I beg of you, permit me to speak to the people.
40 And he giving him permission, Paul stood up on the steps, and motioned with his hand to the people; and when there was great silence, he spoke in the Hebrew language, and said,
1 Men, brothers and fathers, hear my present defense before you. 2 And hearing that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they kept the greater silence. 3 And he said, I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, instructed at the feet of Gamaliel in the accurate interpretation of the law of our fathers, and am a zealous worshipper of God as you all are to-day; 4 and I persecuted this way to death, binding and committing to prison both men and women, 5 as the chief priest also bears me witness, and all the eldership, from whom also receiving letters to the brothers I went to Damascus, to bring those who were there bound to Jerusalem to be punished.