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21 Then he said to me, Depart: for I will send you afar to preach to the Gentiles. 22 They had given Paul audience up to this word, and then they lifted up their voices, and cried out, 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 robes, and threw dust into the air, 24 The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and ordered that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know for what cause they cried so against him. 25 And when they had bound him with thongs, Paul said to the centurion who stood over him, Is it lawful for you to scourge a Roman citizen who is uncondemned? 26 When the centurion heard that, he went to the chief captain and said, Be careful what you do: for this man is a Roman citizen. 27 Then the captain came and said to him, Tell me, are you a Roman? Paul said, Yes. 28 And the captain answered and said, I obtained Roman citizenship with a great sum of money. Paul answered, But I was free born to it. 29 Immediately those who were ready to scourge him left him alone, and the captain was afraid when he found out that he was a Roman citizen, because he had bound him. 30 The next day, because he desired to know the truthfulness of the charges which the Jews had brought against Paul, he unbound him and commanded the high priests and all their council to appear before him, and he took Paul and brought him down, and set him before them. Acts 22:21-30, Lamsa Bible. Public domain.
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