²⁶ When the centurion heard that, he went to the tribune and said to him, “What are you about to do? This man is a Roman.”

²⁷ This man was seized by the Jews and was about to be killed by them, but when I had learned that he was a Roman, I came with the guard and rescued him.^(A)

²⁹ Immediately those who were about to examine him drew back from him, and the tribune also was afraid, for he realized that Paul was a Roman and that he had bound him.