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25 But when they had strapped him up, Paul said to the officer who was standing near, "Is it legal for you to flog a Roman citizen, and without giving him a trial?"
26 Upon hearing this, the officer went to the colonel and reported it. "What do you propose to do?" he said. "This man is a Roman citizen."
27 Then the colonel came to Paul and said, "Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?" "Yes," he said.
28 "I had to pay a large sum for my citizenship," said the colonel. "But I am a citizen by birth," said Paul.
29 Then the men who had been going to examine him immediately left him, and the colonel himself was alarmed to find that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had had him bound.