Acts:21:27-22

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* And when the seven days were nearly completed , the Jews from Asia , having seen him in the temple , set all the crowd in a tumult , and laid hands upon him , * crying , Israelites , help ! this is the man who teaches all everywhere against the people , and the law , and this place , and has brought Greeks too into the temple , and profaned this holy place . * For they had before seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city , whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple . * And the whole city was moved , and there was a concourse of the people ; and having laid hold on Paul they drew him out of the temple , and immediately the doors were shut . * And as they were seeking to kill him , a representation came to the chiliarch of the band that the whole of Jerusalem was in a tumult ; * who , taking with him immediately soldiers and centurions , ran down upon them . But they , seeing the chiliarch and the soldiers , ceased beating Paul . * Then the chiliarch came up and laid hold upon him , and commanded [him ] to be bound with two chains , and inquired who he might be , and what he had done . * And different persons cried some different thing in the crowd . But he , not being able to know the certainty on account of the uproar , commanded him to be brought into the fortress . * But when he got upon the stairs it was so that he was borne by the soldiers on account of the violence of the crowd . * For the multitude of the people followed , crying , Away with him . * But as he was about to be led into the fortress , Paul says to the chiliarch , Is it allowed me to say something to thee ? And he said , Dost thou know Greek ? * Thou art not then that Egyptian who before these days raised a sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the assassins ? * But Paul said , I am a Jew of Tarsus , citizen of no insignificant city of Cilicia , and I beseech of thee , allow me to speak to the people . * And when he had allowed him , Paul , standing on the stairs , beckoned with his hand to the people ; and a great silence having been made , he addressed them in the Hebrew tongue , saying ,

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