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And as they went about to kill him, tidings came to the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.
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Who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them. And when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, they left beating Paul.
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Then the chief captain came near and took him, and commanded [him] to be bound with two chains: and inquired who he was, and what he had done.
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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 castle.
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And when he came upon the stairs, so it was that he was borne by the soldiers, for the violence of the people.
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For the multitude of the people followed, crying, Away with him.
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And as Paul was to be led into the castle, he said to the chief captain, May I speak to thee? Who said, Canst thou speak Greek?
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Art not thou that Egyptian, who before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?
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But Paul said, I am a man [who am] a Jew of Tarsus, [a city] of Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and I beseech thee suffer me to speak to the people.
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And when he had given him license, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand to the people. And when there was made entire silence, he spoke to [them] in the Hebrew language, saying,