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Acts 21:37

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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?

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Acts 21:37 in other translations

And as Paul was about to be brought into the castle, he saith unto the chief captain, May I say something unto thee? And he said, Dost thou know Greek?

Acts 21:37 · American Standard Version

Acts 21:37 in context

  1. 35When he came to the stairs, he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd;
  2. 36for the multitude of the people followed after, crying out, “Away with him!”
  3. 37As 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?
  4. 38Aren’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?”
  5. 39But 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.”