Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.

Examined him

Bible References

Examined him

Acts 22:24
till the commander ordered him to be taken inside the barracks and examined under the lash, so as to find out why the people shouted at him in this way.
Hebrews 11:35
Some were given back to their womankind, raised from the very dead; others were broken on the wheel, refusing to accept release, that they might obtain a better resurrection;

The chief

Acts 22:25
They had strapped him up, when Paul said to the officer who was standing by, "Are you allowed to scourge a Roman citizen ??and to scourge him without a trial?"
Acts 16:38
The lictors reported this to the praetors, who, on hearing the men were Roman citizens, became alarmed;