And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors were shut (21:30)

And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar (21:31)

Who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down unto them: and when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, they left beating of Paul (21:32)

Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded [him] to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done (21:33)

And some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude: and when he could not know the certainty for the tumult, he commanded him to be carried into the castle (21:34)

And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the people (21:35)

For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him (21:36)

And as Paul was to be led into the castle, he said unto the chief captain, May I speak unto thee? Who said, Canst thou speak Greek? (21:37)

Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers? (21:38)

But Paul said, I am a man [which am] a Jew of Tarsus, [a city] in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people (21:39)

And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto [them] in the Hebrew tongue, saying, (21:40)

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