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25 And as they boude him with thonges, Paul saide vnto ye Centurion that stoode by: Is it lawfull for you to scourge a man that is a Romane, and vncondempned? 26 When the Centurion hearde that, he went and tolde the vpper captaine, saying: Take heede what thou doest, for this man is a Romane. 27 Then the vpper captaine came, & saide vnto him: Tel me, art thou a Romane? He sayde, yea. 28 And the chiefe captaine aunswered: With a great summe obteyned I this freedome. And Paul saide: I was free borne. 29 Then strayghtway departed fro him they which should haue examined him. And the hie captaine also was afrayde, after he knew that he was a Romane, and because he had bounde hym. Acts 22:25-29, Bishops' Bible of 1568. Public domain.
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