⁴⁰ And when he had given him permission, Paul, standing on the steps, ^(A)motioned with his hand to the people. And when there was a great hush, he addressed them in ^(B)the Hebrew language,^[a] saying:

¹⁷ But ^(A)motioning to them with his hand to be silent, he described to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, “Tell these things to ^(B)James and to ^(C)the brothers.”^[a] Then he departed and went to another place.

¹⁴ And when we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me ^(A)in the Hebrew language,^[a] ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’

² And when they heard that he was addressing them in ^(A)the Hebrew language,^[a] they became even more quiet. And he said:

² Now there is in Jerusalem by ^(A)the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic^[a] called Bethesda,^[b] which has five roofed colonnades.

³⁵ And when he came to the steps, he was actually carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd,

¹⁶ And ^(A)they assembled them at the place that in Hebrew is called ^(B)Armageddon.

¹¹ They have ^(A)as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is ^(B)Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.^[a]

³³ Some of the crowd prompted Alexander, whom the Jews had put forward. And Alexander, ^(A)motioning with his hand, wanted to make a defense to the crowd.

¹⁶ So Paul stood up, and ^(A)motioning with his hand said: