| 27 | 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, |
| 28 | 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." |
| 29 | 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. |
| 30 | 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. |
| 31 | And as they were trying to kill him, word came to the tribune of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion. |
| 32 | 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. |
| 33 | 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. |
| 34 | 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. |
| 35 | And when he came to the steps, he was actually carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd; |
| 36 | for the mob of the people followed, crying, "Away with him!" |
| 37 | 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? |
| 38 | 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?" |
| 39 | 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." |
| 40 | 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: |