Acts 22:22-29

New American Standard Bible 1995

²² They listened to him up to this statement, and then they raised their voices and said, “^(A)Away with such a fellow from the earth, for ^(B)he should not be allowed to live!” ²³ And as they were crying out and ^(C)throwing off their cloaks and ^(D)tossing dust into the air, ²⁴ the ^[a]commander ordered him to be brought into ^(E)the barracks, stating that he should be ^(F)examined by scourging so that he might find out the reason why they were shouting against him that way. ²⁵ But when they stretched him out ^[b]with thongs, Paul said to the centurion who was standing by, “Is it ^[c]lawful for you to scourge ^(G)a man who is a Roman and uncondemned?” ²⁶ When the centurion heard this, he went to the ^[d]commander and told him, saying, “What are you about to do? For this man is a Roman.” ²⁷ The ^[e]commander came and said to him, “Tell me, are you a Roman?” And he said, “Yes.” ²⁸ The ^[f]commander answered, “I acquired this citizenship with a large sum of money.” And Paul said, “But I was actually born a citizen.” ²⁹ Therefore those who were about to ^(H)examine him immediately ^[g]let go of him; and the ^[h]commander also ^(I)was afraid when he found out that he was a Roman, and because he had ^[i](J)put him in chains.