Hechos 22:24

24 Pablo revela su ciudadanía romana
El comandante llevó a Pablo adentro y ordenó que lo azotaran con látigos para hacerlo confesar su delito. Quería averiguar por qué la multitud se había enfurecido.

Hechos 22:24 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 22:24

The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the
castle
Into the inside of it; for till now he was upon the top of the stairs, or steps, which led up to it; which might be done in order to save him from the rage of the people, and that he might privately examine him, and get the true state of his case, though he took a very wrong and unjustifiable method to do it in, as follows:

and bade that he should be examined by scourging;
he gave a centurion, with some soldiers, orders to scourge and whip him, and to lay on stripes more and harder, until he should tell the whole truth of the matter, and confess the crime or crimes he was guilty of, which had so enraged the populace:

that he might know wherefore they cried so against him;
for though he had rescued him out of their hands, when they would in all likelihood have beat him to death; and though he took him within the castle to secure him from their violence; yet he concluded he must be a bad man, and must have done something criminal; and therefore he takes this method to extort from him a confession of his crime, for which the people exclaimed against him with so much virulence.

Hechos 22:24 In-Context

22 La multitud escuchó hasta que Pablo dijo esta palabra. Entonces todos comenzaron a gritar: «¡Llévense a ese tipo! ¡No es digno de vivir!».

23 Gritaron, arrojaron sus abrigos y lanzaron puñados de polvo al aire.

24 Pablo revela su ciudadanía romana
El comandante llevó a Pablo adentro y ordenó que lo azotaran con látigos para hacerlo confesar su delito. Quería averiguar por qué la multitud se había enfurecido.

25 Cuando ataron a Pablo para azotarlo, Pablo le preguntó al oficial
que estaba allí:
—¿Es legal que azoten a un ciudadano romano que todavía no ha sido juzgado?

26 Cuando el oficial oyó esto, fue al comandante y le preguntó: «¿Qué está haciendo? ¡Este hombre es un ciudadano romano!».