Acts 22:22-30 - Paul Questioned By The Military Tribune
22 They had listened to him until he said that, but then they shouted, "Kill him and get him out of the world! A creature like that ought not to be allowed to live!"
23 As they were shouting and throwing their clothes about and flinging dust into the air, 24 the colonel ordered Paul brought into the barracks, and gave directions that he should be examined under the lash, so that he might find out why they made such an outcry against him. 25 But when they had strapped him up, Paul said to the officer who was standing near, "Is it legal for you to flog a Roman citizen, and without giving him a trial?"
26 Upon hearing this, the officer went to the colonel and reported it. "What do you propose to do?" he said. "This man is a Roman citizen."
27 Then the colonel came to Paul and said, "Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?" "Yes," he said.
28 "I had to pay a large sum for my citizenship," said the colonel. "But I am a citizen by birth," said Paul.
29 Then the men who had been going to examine him immediately left him, and the colonel himself was alarmed to find that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had had him bound.
30 The next day, as he wished to find out the real reason why the Jews denounced him, he had him unbound and ordered the high priests and the whole council to assemble, and took Paul down and brought him before them.