¹⁰ So Paul said, “I stand at Caesar’s judgment seat, where I ought to be judged. To the Jews I have done no wrong, as you very well know.

² But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor ^[a]handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth ^(A)commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

¹⁸ who, ^(A)when they had examined me, wanted to let me go, because there was no cause for putting me to death.

³¹ and when they had gone aside, they talked among themselves, saying, ^(A)“This man is doing nothing deserving of death or chains.”

²⁵ But when I found that ^(A)he had committed nothing deserving of death, ^(B)and that he himself had appealed to Augustus, I decided to send him.

¹⁸ For he knew that they had handed Him over because of ^(A)envy.

¹⁷ Therefore when they had come together, ^(A)without any delay, the next day I sat on the judgment seat and commanded the man to be brought in.

⁶ And when he had remained among them more than ten days, he went down to Caesarea. And the next day, sitting on the judgment seat, he commanded Paul to be brought.

²⁵ And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said to the centurion who stood by, ^(A)“Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman, and uncondemned?”

²⁶ When the centurion heard that, he went and told the commander, saying, “Take care what you do, for this man is a Roman.”

²⁷ Then the commander came and said to him, “Tell me, are you a Roman?”

He said, “Yes.”

²⁸ The commander answered, “With a large sum I obtained this citizenship.”

And Paul said, “But I was born a citizen.”