How do warning, purification counsel and temple accusations precede Paul’s request to speak?

Parting from the ancients, the party sails straight to Coos, then Rhodes the next day and Patara. A ship bound for Phenice carries them onward, leaving Cyprus to the left as they sail to Syria. At Tyre, where the ship unloads, they find disciples and stay seven days. Through the Spirit these disciples tell Paul not to go to Jerusalem. At departure they escort the travellers outside the city with wives and children, kneel and pray on the shore, and bid farewell. The travellers take ship and the hosts return home. At Ptolemais they greet the brethren and stay a day, then reach Cæsarea and lodge with Philip the evangelist, one of the seven. The annotation identifies him as a gospel preacher who converted the Samaritans and baptized the eunuch, and as one of the first seven deacons. His four virgin daughters prophesy.

After some days Agabus arrives from Judea, takes Paul’s girdle and binds his own feet and hands. He attributes to the Holy Ghost the prediction that Jerusalem’s Jews will bind its owner and deliver him to the Gentiles. Companions and locals urge Paul not to go. He asks why they weep and afflict his heart, saying he is ready for bonds and death at Jerusalem for Jesus’s name. Unable to persuade him, they cease and say the Lord’s will be done. After preparing, they go to Jerusalem with Cæsarean disciples, who bring Mnason, a Cyprian old disciple with whom to lodge. The brethren receive them gladly.

The next day they visit James and the assembled ancients. Paul recounts particular works God performed among Gentiles through his ministry. They glorify God and mention thousands of Jewish believers zealous for the law, who have heard that Paul teaches Jews among Gentiles to abandon Moses, not circumcise children or keep customs. Knowing the multitude must hear of his arrival, they advise him to join four men under a vow, sanctify himself with them and bestow on them so their heads may be shaved. They expect this to show the reports false and Paul keeping the law. The annotation says the law, no longer obligatory, was temporarily kept by Jewish Christians to bury the synagogue with honour. They recall the Gentile decree concerning idol offerings, blood, strangled things and fornication. Paul takes the men, purifies himself the next day and enters the temple to announce the completion of the purification days until each oblation.

Near the end of seven days, Asian Jews see him in the temple, stir the people and seize him. They allege teaching against the people, law and place, and bringing Gentiles into the temple. They had seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city and supposed Paul brought him inside. The city is stirred; people drag Paul out and shut the doors. While they seek to kill him, the tumult reaches the tribune, who brings soldiers and centurions. Their arrival stops the beating. He seizes Paul, orders two chains and asks who he is and what he did. Conflicting cries prevent certainty, so he orders Paul taken to the castle. Soldiers carry him at the stairs because of the crowd’s violence, as the crowd cries for his removal.

Before entering, Paul asks to speak. The tribune asks whether he knows Greek and whether he is the Egyptian who led four thousand murderers into the desert. Paul identifies himself as a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city, and requests permission to address the people. Granted it, he stands on the stairs, signals with his hand and, after great silence, speaks in Hebrew.