Acts 21:39
King James Version
“But Paul said, I am a man a Jew of Tarsus, in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.”
Context
36For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.
37And as Paul was to be led into the castle, he said unto the chief captain, May I speak unto thee? Who said, Canst thou speak Greek?
38Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?
39But Paul said, I am a man a Jew of Tarsus, in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.
40And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto in the Hebrew tongue, saying,