Acts 21:37

But as he was about to be led into the fortress, Paul says to the chiliarch, Is it allowed me to say something to thee? And he said, Dost thou know Greek?

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

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?

In Context

36For the multitude of the people followed, crying, Away with him.

38Thou art not then that Egyptian who before these days raised a sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the assassins?

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Cross References

Matthew 10:18and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.

Acts 19:30But Paul intending to go in to the people, the disciples suffered him not;

Acts 21:34And different persons cried some different thing in the crowd. But he, not being able to know the certainty on account of the uproar, commanded him to be brought into the fortress.

Matthew Henry on Acts 21:28-40

Paul Seized in the Temple; The Tumult at Jerusalem. 27 And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him, 28 Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place. 29 (For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they… Read the whole commentary →

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