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
the chiliarch commanded him to be brought into the fortress, ordering that he should be examined with scourges, that he might know for what reason they cried so against him.
Hebrews 11:35
women received their dead from a resurrection, others were tortured having not accepted redemption, that they might obtain a better resurrection;

The chief

Acts 22:25
But when they extended him with cords, he said to the centurion standing by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man, a Roman, and uncondemned?
Acts 16:38
And the lictors told these words to the prefects, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans;