Acts 22:22–29

²²And they gave him audience unto this word, and then ^slift up their voices, and said, ^tAway with such a fellow from the earth: for ^uit is not fit that he should live. ²³And as they cried out, and cast off their clothes, and threw dust into the air, ²⁴the chief captain commanded him to be brought into ^xthe castle, and bade that he should be ^yexamined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him. ²⁵And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a ^zRoman, and ^zuncondemned? ²⁶When the centurion heard that, he went and told the chief captain, saying, Take heed what thou doest: for this man is a Roman. ²⁷Then the chief captain came, and said unto him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yea. ²⁸And the chief captain answered, With a great sum ^aobtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born. ²⁹Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also ^bwas afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.