²²And they heard him until this word and then lifted up their voice, saying: Away with such an one from the earth. For it is not fit that he should live.

²³And as they cried out and threw off their garments and cast dust into the air,

²⁴The tribune commanded him to be brought into the castle, and that he should be scourged and tortured: to know for what cause they did so cry out against him.

²⁵And when they had bound him with thongs, Paul saith to the centurion that stood by him: Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman and uncondemned?

²⁶Which the centurion hearing, went to the tribune and told him, saying: What art thou about to do? For this man is a Roman citizen.

²⁷And the tribune coming, said to him: Tell me. Art thou a Roman? But he said: Yea.

²⁸And the tribune answered: I obtained the being free of this city with a great sum. And Paul said: But I was born so.

²⁹Immediately therefore they departed from him that were about to torture him. The tribune also was afraid after he understood that he was a Roman citizen and because he had bound him.

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