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OET (OET-LV) And of_ him _having_permitted, the Paulos having_stood on the stairs, gestured with_his hand to_the people, and great silence having_become, he_called_out in_his Hebraios language saying,
OET (OET-RV) The commander nodded, so the soldiers stood Paul on the stairs where he gestured to the people. The crowd quietened down, and so Paul spoke loudly in his Hebrew language:
Note 1 topic: writing-pronouns
ἐπιτρέψαντος & αὐτοῦ
˱of˲_/having/_permitted & him
The pronoun he refers to the Roman commander. It may be helpful to clarify this for your readers. Alternate translation: “when the commander allowed”
Note 2 topic: translate-symaction
κατέσεισε τῇ χειρὶ τῷ λαῷ
gestured ˱with˲_his hand ˱to˲_the people
This likely means that Paul waved his hand to get the attention of the audience and signal that he was about to speak. He did this to quiet them. Alternate translation: “waved his hand to the people to signal that he was about to speak”
21:37-40 The commander had mistaken Paul for an Egyptian false messiah who had planned to seize power from the Romans around AD 54 (roughly three years earlier; see Josephus, War 2.13.5). Paul corrected the mistake, gained permission to speak to the people, and addressed the crowd in Aramaic, the common language of Judea. He gave a strong statement of his faith in Jesus as the Messiah (Acts 22:1-21).
OET (OET-LV) And of_ him _having_permitted, the Paulos having_stood on the stairs, gestured with_his hand to_the people, and great silence having_become, he_called_out in_his Hebraios language saying,
OET (OET-RV) The commander nodded, so the soldiers stood Paul on the stairs where he gestured to the people. The crowd quietened down, and so Paul spoke loudly in his Hebrew language:
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.