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## Acts 21:33-40 in Context (Verses 30–40 KJV)
 
 [30 ](/kjv/acts/21/30) And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors were shut.
 
 [31 ](/kjv/acts/21/31) And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.
 
 [32 ](/kjv/acts/21/32) Who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down unto them: and when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, they left beating of Paul.
 
 [33 ](/kjv/acts/21/33) Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded *him* to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done.
 
 [34 ](/kjv/acts/21/34) 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 castle.
 
 [35 ](/kjv/acts/21/35) And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the people.
 
 [36 ](/kjv/acts/21/36) For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.
 
 [37 ](/kjv/acts/21/37) 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 ](/kjv/acts/21/38) 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 ](/kjv/acts/21/39) 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.
 
 [40 ](/kjv/acts/21/40) And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto *them* in the Hebrew tongue, saying,
 
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