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36 The large number of people that was following kept shouting, “Away with him!”

Paul Makes His Defense

37 As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he asked the commander, “May I say something to you?”

He replied, “Do you know Greek? 38 Are you not the Egyptian who started a revolt some time ago and led four thousand men of the Assassins[a] into the wilderness?”

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 21:38 Or dagger men. This group of assassins was called the Sicarii, because of their use of the sicarius, which was a short dagger.