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(For they had seen beforewithhimin the cityTrophimus an Ephesian,whom they supposedthatPaul had broughtinto the temple.)
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Andall the city was moved, and the people ran together*: and they tookPaul, and drewhim out of the temple:andforthwith the doors were shut.
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And as they went about to killhim,tidingscame unto the chief captain of the band,thatallJerusalem was in an uproar.
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Whoimmediatelytooksoldiersandcenturions, and ran downuntothem:and when they saw the chief captainand the soldiers, they leftbeating of Paul.
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Then the chief captain came near, and tookhim,andcommanded him to be bound withtwochains;anddemandedwho he was*, andwhat he haddone.
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Andsomecried one thing, some another,among the multitude:and when he couldnotknow the certaintyfor the tumult, he commandedhim to be carriedinto the castle.
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Andwhen he cameupon the stairs, so it was, that he was borneof the soldiersfor the violence of the people.
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For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.
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And as Paul was to beledinto the castle, he said unto the chief captain,May*Ispeak*untothee*? Whosaid, Canst thou speakGreek?
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ArtnotthouthatEgyptian, which beforethesedays madest an uproar, and leddest outinto the wilderness four thousandmen that were murderers?
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ButPaulsaid, Iam* a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of nomeancity:and, I beseechthee,sufferme to speakunto the people.