and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple. 021:030 All the city was moved, and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple. Immediately the doors were shut. 021:031 As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar. 021:032 Immediately he took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped beating Paul. 021:033 Then the commanding officer came near, arrested him, commanded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he was and what he had done. 021:034 Some shouted one thing, and some another, among the crowd. When he couldn't find out the truth because of the noise, he commanded him to be brought into the barracks. 021:035 When he came to the stairs, it happened that he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd; 021:036 for the multitude of the people followed after, crying out, "Away with him!" 021:037 As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he asked the commanding officer, "May I speak to you?" He said, "Do you know Greek? 021:038 Aren't you then the Egyptian, who before these days stirred up to sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the Assassins?" 021:039 But Paul said, "I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. I beg you, allow me to speak to the people." 021:040 When he had given him permission, Paul, standing on the stairs, beckoned with his hand to the people. When there was a great silence, he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, saying, 022:001 "Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you." 022:002 When they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they were even more quiet. He said, 022:003 "I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are this day. 022:004 I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women. 022:005 As also the high priest and all the council of the elders testify, from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and traveled to Damascus to bring them also who were there to Jerusalem in bonds to be punished. 022:006 It happened that, as I made my journey, and came close to Damascus, about noon, suddenly there shone from the sky a great light around me. 022:007 I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?' 022:008 I answered, 'Who are you, Lord?' He said to me, 'I am Jesus