021:034 Some of the crowd shouted one accusation against Paul and some another, until, as the uproar made it impossible for the truth to be ascertained with certainty, the Tribune ordered him to be brought into the barracks. 021:035 When Paul was going up the steps, he had to be carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the mob; 021:036 for the whole mass of the people pressed on in the rear, shouting, "Away with him!" 021:037 When he was about to be taken into the barracks, Paul said to the Tribune, "May I speak to you?" "Do you know Greek?" the Tribune asked. 021:038 "Are you not the Egyptian who some years ago excited the riot of the 4,000 cut-throats, and led them out into the Desert?" 021:039 "I am a Jew," replied Paul, "belonging to Tarsus in Cilicia, and am a citizen of no unimportant city. Give me leave, I pray you, to speak to the people." 021:040 So with his permission Paul stood on the steps and motioned with his hand to the people to be quiet; and when there was perfect silence he addressed them in Hebrew. 022:001 "Brethren and fathers," he said, "listen to my defence which I now make before you." 022:002 And on hearing him address them in Hebrew, they kept all the more quiet; and he said, 022:003 "I am a Jew, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city. I was carefully trained at the feet of Gamaliel in the Law of our forefathers, and, like all of you to-day, was zealous for God. 022:004 I persecuted to death this new faith, continually binding both men and women and throwing them into prison; 022:005 as the High Priest also and all the Elders can bear me witness. It was, too, from them that I received letters to the brethren in Damascus, and I was already on my way to Damascus, intending to bring those also who had fled there, in chains to Jerusalem, to be punished. 022:006 "But on my way, when I was now not far from Damascus, about noon a sudden blaze of light from Heaven shone round me. 022:007 I fell to the ground and heard a voice say to me, "`Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?' 022:008 "`Who art thou, Lord?' I asked. "`I am Jesus, the Nazarene,' He replied, `whom you are persecuting.' 022:009 "Now the men who were with me, though they saw the light, did not hear the words of Him who spoke to me. 022:010 And I asked, "`What am I to do, Lord?' "And the Lord said to me, "`Rise, and go into Damascus. There you shall be told of all that has been appointed for you to do.' 022:011 "And as I could not see because the light had been so dazzling, those who were with me had to lead me by the arm, and so I came to Damascus. 022:012 "And a certain Ananias, a pious man who obeyed the Law and bore a good character with all the Jews of the city,