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When the seven days were almost completed ,
the Jews from Asia ,
who had seen him in the temple ,
stirred up all the crowd ,
and laid hands on him ,
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crying out , "
Men of Israel ,
help !
This is the man who is teaching men everywhere against the people and the law and this place ;
moreover he also brought Greeks into the temple ,
and he has defiled this holy place ."
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For they had previously seen Troph '
imus the Ephesian with him in the city ,
and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple .
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Then all the city was aroused ,
and the people ran together ;
they seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple ,
and at once the gates were shut .
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And as they were trying to kill him ,
word came to the tribune of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion .
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He at once took soldiers and centurions ,
and ran down to them ;
and when they saw the tribune and the soldiers ,
they stopped beating Paul .
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Then the tribune came up and arrested him ,
and ordered him to be bound with two chains .
He inquired who he was and what he had done .
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Some in the crowd shouted one thing ,
some another ;
and as he could not learn the facts because of the uproar ,
he ordered him to be brought into the barracks .
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And when he came to the steps ,
he was actually carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd ;
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for the mob of the people followed ,
crying , "
Away with him !"
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As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks ,
he said to the tribune , "
May I say something to you ?"
And he said , "
Do you know Greek ?
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Are you not the Egyptian ,
then ,
who recently stirred up a revolt and led the four thousand men of the Assassins out into the wilderness ?"
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Paul replied , "
I am a Jew ,
from Tarsus in Cili '
cia ,
a citizen of no mean city ;
I beg you ,
let me speak to the people ."
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And when he had given him leave ,
Paul ,
standing on the steps ,
motioned with his hand to the people ;
and when there was a great hush ,
he spoke to them in the Hebrew language ,
saying :
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