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For a great mass of people came after them, crying out, Away with him!
Acts 21:36 · Bible in Basic English
For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.
For the crowd that followed him kept shouting, “Away with him!”
for the multitude of the people followed after, crying out, “Away with him!”
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33 Then the chief captain came near and took him, and gave orders for him to be put in chains, questioning them as to who he was and what he had done.
34 And some said one thing and some another, among the people: and as he was not able to get a knowledge of the facts because of the noise, he gave orders for Paul to be taken into the army building.
35 And when he came on to the steps, he was lifted up by the armed men, because of the force of the people;
36 For a great mass of people came after them, crying out, Away with him!
37 And when Paul was about to be taken into the building, he said to the chief captain, May I say something to you? And he said, Have you a knowledge of Greek?
38 Are you by chance the Egyptian who, before this, got the people worked up against the government and took four thousand men of the Assassins out into the waste land?
39 But Paul said, I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia, which is not an unimportant town: I make a request to you to let me say a word to the people.
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