Williams(i)
25 But when they had tied him for the flogging, Paul asked the captain who was standing by, "Is it lawful for you to flog a Roman, and one who is uncondemned at that?"
26 When the captain heard that, he went to the colonel and reported it. Then he asked him, "What are you going to do? This man is a Roman citizen."
27 So the colonel came to Paul and asked, "Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?" He answered, "Yes."
28 Then the colonel said, "I paid a large sum for this citizenship of mine." Paul said, "But I was born a citizen."
29 So the men who were going to examine him left him at once, and the colonel himself was frightened when he learned that he was a Roman citizen and that he had had him bound.