ACTS 22:27 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Then the chief captain came, and said unto him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yea.”
The commander came and said to him, 'Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?' And he said, 'Yes' — the commander's surprise is palpable; a Jewish prisoner claiming Roman citizenship was unexpected. Paul's citizenship, inherited from his Tarsus birth, reveals the complexity of identity in the Hellenistic world.
Church Fathers on Acts 22:27
When the centurion heard that, he went and told the tribune, saying, Take heed what you do, for this man is a Roman. Then the tribune came, and said to him, Tell me, are you a Roman? He said, Yea. And the tribune answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born. Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the tribune also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him. Acts…
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