(Paul wanted to enter the popular assembly, but the disciples would not allow him.
Paul said, "I am a Jew, a native of Tarsus in Cilicia, the citizen of a famous town. Pray let me speak to the people."
But as some grew stubborn and disobedient, decrying the Way in presence of the multitude, he left them, withdrew the disciples, and continued his argument every day from eleven to four in the lecture-room of Tyrannus.
Some of the Asiarchs, who were friends of his, also sent to beg him not to venture into the amphitheatre.)