[22:22] Up to this word they listened to him. Then they raised their voices and said, “Away with such a fellow from the earth! For he should not be allowed to live.”
[22:23] And as they were shouting and throwing off their cloaks and flinging dust into the air,
[22:24] the tribune ordered him to be brought into the barracks, saying that he should be examined by flogging, to find out why they were shouting against him like this.
[22:25] But when they had stretched him out for the whips, Paul said to the centurion who was standing by, “Is it lawful for you to flog a man who is a Roman citizen and uncondemned?”
[22:26] When the centurion heard this, he went to the tribune and said to him, “What are you about to do? For this man is a Roman citizen.”
[22:27] So the tribune came and said to him, “Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?” And he said, “Yes.”
[22:28] The tribune answered, “I bought this citizenship for a large sum.” Paul said, “But I am a citizen by birth.”
[22:29] So those who were about to examine him withdrew from him immediately, and the tribune also was afraid, for he realized that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had bound him.