Permission to Speak

37As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he said to the tribune, “Is it permitted for me to say something to you?” And he said, “Do you know Greek?”

38Then you are not the Egyptian who some days ago stirred up a revolt and led the four thousand men of the assassins out into the wilderness?

39But Paul said, “I am indeed a Jewish man, a citizen of Tarsus in Cilicia, of no insignificant city. And I beg you, permit me to speak to the people.”