Acts 22:27

And the Chiliarch came to him, and said to him: Tell me; Art thou a Roman? And he said to him: Yes.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

Then the chief captain came, and said unto him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yea.

In Context

26And when the centurion heard it, he went to the Chiliarch, and said to him: What doest thou? For this man is a Roman.

28The Chiliarch replied and said to him: With much money I acquired Roman citizenship. Paul said to him: And I was born in it.

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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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