And some cried out one thing, some another, among the multitude: and when he could not know the truth because of the tumult, he commanded him to be carried into the castle.
The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and ordered that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know why they cried out so against him.
On the next day, because he would have known the true reason for which he was accused by the Jews, he loosed him from his bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul down, and set him before them.
And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing that Paul would be pulled in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.
Of whom I have no certain thing to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought him out before you, and especially before you, O king Agrippa, that, after examination, I might have something to write.