34. Some in the mob shouted one thing, others something else; so, since he was unable to ascertain the truth because of the uproar, he ordered Paul to be brought into the compound.
35. When he reached the steps, he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the mob,
36. for a crowd of people followed and shouted, “Away with him!”
37. Just as Paul was about to be taken into the compound, he said to the cohort commander, “May I say something to you?” He replied, “Do you speak Greek?
38. So then you are not the Egyptian who started a revolt some time ago and led the four thousand assassins into the desert?”
39. Paul answered, “I am a Jew, of Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city; I request you to permit me to speak to the people.”