Acts 22:22-30 - Paul Questioned By The Military Tribune
22 Until they heard this last statement, the people were listening to Paul, but now they roared out. "Away with such a fellow from the earth! He is not fit to live!"
23 When they continued to shout, throwing their clothes into the air, and flinging dust around, 24 the tribune ordered him to be brought into the barracks, and examined under the lash, to learn for what reason the people were thus crying out against him. 25 But when they had tied him up with the thongs, Paul said to the centurion who was standing near, "If a man is a Roman citizen, and uncondemned, is it lawful for you to scourge him?"
26 When the centurion heard that, he went to the tribune and said to him. "What are you intending to do? This man is a Roman citizen."
27 So the tribune came to Paul and asked him, "Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?" "Yes," he said.
28 "I paid a large sum to get this citizenship," said the tribune. "But I was citizen-born," said Paul.
29 Then those who were about to scourge him, immediately left him. And the tribune too, was afraid, when he learned that Paul was a Roman citizen, for he had had him bound.
30 The next day, as he wished to learn the real reason why the Jews accused Paul, he unbound him, and commanded the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin to come together, and brought Paul down, and placed him before them.