Acts 22:24-29 - Paul Reveals His Roman Citizenship
24 the captain bade him to be brought into the castle: and commanded him to be scourged, and to be examined, that he might know wherefore they cried on him. 25 And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, "Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman and uncondemned?"
26 When the centurion heard that, he went to the upper-captain, and told him saying, "What intendest thou to do? This man is a citizen of Rome."
27 Then the upper-captain came to him, and said, "Tell me, art thou a Roman?" He said, "Yea."
28 And the high captain answered, "With a great sum obtained I this freedom." And Paul said, "I was freeborn."
29 Then straightway departed from him they which should have examined him. And the high captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman: because he had bound him.