Acts 21:37-39

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

Paul Asks To Speak To The Mob

³⁷ And being about to be brought into the barracks, Paul says to the commander, “Is it permissible for me to say something to you?” And the one said, “You know Greek? ³⁸ Then are you not the Egyptian— the one before these days having caused-an-upset^[a] and led out into the wilderness the four-thousand men of the Assassins^[b]?” ³⁹ And Paul said, “I am a Jewish man from-Tarsus^[c] of Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city— and I beg you, permit me to speak to the people”.