World English Bible

Acts 21:37

“As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he asked the commanding officer, "May I speak to you?" He said, "Do you know Greek?”

Verse in context — Acts 21

When he came to the stairs, it happened that he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd;

for the multitude of the people followed after, crying out, "Away with him!

As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he asked the commanding officer, "May I speak to you?" He said, "Do you know Greek?

Aren't you then the Egyptian, who before these days stirred up to sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the Assassins?

But Paul said, "I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. I beg you, allow me to speak to the people.

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