Acts 22:25-28 But when they had stretched him out with the cords, Paul said to the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?

Noyes⁽ⁱ⁾ ²⁵ But when they had stretched him out with the cords, Paul said to the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned? ²⁶ When the centurion heard this, he went and told the chief captain, saying, What art thou about to do? For this man is a Roman. ²⁷ Then the chief captain came and said to him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yes. ²⁸ The chief captain answered, For a great sum I obtained this citizenship. And Paul said, But I was born a Roman.