Acts 22:28

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

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born.

In Context

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

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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Matthew Henry on Acts 22:23-30

Paul's First Defence. 22 And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live. 23 And as they cried out, and cast off their clothes, and threw dust into the air, 24 The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him. 25 And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that… Read the whole commentary →

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