Acts 22:21-30

21 "And He said to me, 'Go! For I will send you far away ¹to the Gentiles.'"

22 They listened to him up to this statement, and then they raised their voices and said, "²Away with such a fellow from the earth, for ³he should not be allowed to live!"

23 And as they were crying out and ⁴throwing off their cloaks and ⁵tossing dust into the air,

24 the commander ordered him to be brought into ⁶the barracks, stating that he should be ⁷examined 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 with thongs, Paul said to the centurion who was standing by, "Is it lawful for you to scourge ⁸a man who is a Roman and uncondemned?"

26 When the centurion heard this, he went to the commander and told him, saying, "What are you about to do? For this man is a Roman."

27 The commander came and said to him, "Tell me, are you a Roman?" And he said, "Yes."

28 The 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 ⁹examine him immediately let go of him; and the commander also ¹⁰was afraid when he found out that he was a Roman, and because he had ¹¹put him in chains.

30 But on the next day, ¹²wishing to know for certain why he had been accused by the Jews, he ¹³released him and ordered the chief priests and all ¹⁴the Council to assemble, and brought Paul down and set him before them.

Cross References

• 1. Acts 9:15
• 2. Acts 21:36; 1 Thessalonians 2:16
• 3. Acts 25:24
• 4. Acts 7:58
• 5. 2 Samuel 16:13
• 6. Acts 21:34
• 7. Acts 22:29
• 8. Acts 16:37
• 9. Acts 22:24
• 10. Acts 16:38
• 11. Acts 21:33
• 12. Acts 23:28
• 13. Acts 21:33
• 14. Matthew 5:22

Footnotes

• [a] I.e. chiliarch, in command of one thousand troops
• [b] Or "for the whip"
• [c] Interrogation by torture was a procedure used with slaves
• [d] V 24, note 1
• [e] V 24, note 1
• [f] V 24, note 1
• [g] Lit "withdrew from"
• [h] V 24, note 1
• [i] Lit "bound him"
• [j] Or "Sanhedrin"