WPNT(i)
24 the commander ordered him to be taken into the barracks, directing that he be interrogated with lashes, in order to learn for what crime they kept shouting against him like that.
25 But as they stretched him out with the thongs, Paul said to the centurion who stood by, “Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman, and uncondemned?”
26 Well when the centurion heard that, he went and reported to the commander saying, “Consider what you are about to do, because this man is a Roman!”
27 So the commander went and said to him, “Tell me, are you a Roman?” So he said, “Yes”.
28 The commander replied, “I acquired this citizenship at considerable cost”. And Paul said, “But I was so born”.