36 The crowd that followed kept shouting, “Get rid of him!”(A)

Paul Speaks to the Crowd(B)

37 As the soldiers were about to take Paul into the barracks,(C) he asked the commander, “May I say something to you?”

“Do you speak Greek?” he replied. 38 “Aren’t you the Egyptian who started a revolt and led four thousand terrorists out into the wilderness(D) some time ago?”(E)

39 Paul answered, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus(F) in Cilicia,(G) a citizen of no ordinary city. Please let me speak to the people.”

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36 For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.

37 And as Paul was to be led into the castle, he said unto the chief captain, May I speak unto thee? Who said, Canst thou speak Greek?

38 Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?

39 But Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.

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