33. Then the tribunal came near and took him and commanded him to be bound with two chains and demanded to know who he was and what he had done.
34. And some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude; and when he could not know the certainty for the tumult, he commanded him to be carried into the fortress.
35. And when he came upon the stairs, so it was that he was borne of the soldiers because of the violence of the people.
36. For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.
37. And as Paul was to be led into the fortress, he said unto the tribunal, May I speak unto thee? Who said, Canst thou speak Greek?
38. Art not thou that Egyptian, who before these days made an uproar and led four thousand men out into the wilderness that were murderers?
39. But Paul said, I am certainly a Jew, a citizen of Tarsus, a city known in Cilicia; and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.