Acts 21:37-Acts 22:5 - Paul Permitted To Address The Crowd
37 And as Paul was about to be brought into the castle, he said to the chief captain, May I speak to thee? 38 Who said, Canst thou speak Greek? Art not thou that Egyptian, who before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out four thousand murtherers into the wilderness?
39 But Paul said, I am a man who am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and I beseech thee, suffer me to speak to the people.
40 And when he had given him leave, Paul standing on the stairs, waved his hand to the people: and a great silence being made, he spake to them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,
1 Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye now my defence unto you. 2 (And when they heard that he addressed them in the Hebrew tongue, they kept the more silence: 3 and he saith) I am verily a Jew, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and accurately instructed in the law of our fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day. 4 And I persecuted this way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women: As likewise the high priest is my witness, and all the estate of the elders: 5 from whom also I received letters to the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them who were there to Jerusalem to be punished.