Acts 22:24-29 - Paul Reveals His Roman Citizenship

²⁴ the chief captain ordered him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might ascertain for what cause they were thus crying out against him. ²⁵ But when they had stretched him out with the cords, Paul said to 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 this, he went and told the chief captain, saying, What art thou about to do? For this man is a Roman.

²⁷ Then the chief captain came and said to him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yes.

²⁸ The chief captain answered, For a great sum I obtained this citizenship. And Paul said, But I was born a Roman.

²⁹ They therefore who were about to examine him left him immediately. And the chief captain also was alarmed when he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.