Acts:21:27-22
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And when the seven days were almost ended ,
the Jews who were from Asia ,
when they saw him in the temple ,
stirred up all the people ,
and laid hands on him ,
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Crying out ,
Men of Israel ,
help :
This is the man ,
that teacheth all every where against the people ,
and the law ,
and this place :
and further hath brought Greeks also into the temple ,
and hath polluted this holy place .
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For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian ,
whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple .)
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And all the city was moved ,
and the people ran together :
and they took Paul ,
and drew him out of the temple :
and immediately the doors were shut .
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And as they went about to kill him ,
tidings came to the chief captain of the band ,
that all Jerusalem was in an uproar .
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Who immediately took soldiers and centurions ,
and ran down to them :
and when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers ,
they stopped beating Paul .
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Then the chief captain came near ,
and took him ,
and commanded to be bound with two chains ;
and demanded who he was ,
and what he had done .
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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 barracks .
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And when he came upon the stairs ,
so it was ,
that he was borne by the soldiers for the violence of the people .
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For the multitude of the people followed ,
crying ,
Away with him .
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And as Paul was to be led into the barracks ,
he said to the chief captain ,
May I speak to thee ?
Who said ,
Canst thou speak Greek ?
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Art not thou that Egyptian ,
who before these days madest an uproar ,
and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers ?
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But Paul said ,
I am a man a Jew of Tarsus ,
of Cilicia ,
a citizen of no mean city :
and ,
I beseech thee ,
permit me to speak to the people .
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And when he had given him permission ,
Paul stood on the stairs ,
and beckoned with the hand to the people .
And when there was made a great silence ,
he spoke to in the Hebrew language ,
saying ,