Acts 22:17-29 - Paul's Call To Preach To The Gentiles
17 And it fortuned, when I was come again to Jerusalem and prayed in the temple, that I was in a trance; 18 And saw him saying unto me, 'Make haste, and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem: for they will not receive thy witness that thou bearest of me.'
19 And I said, 'Lord they know that I prisoned, and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee. 20 And when the blood of thy witness Stephen was shed, I also stood by, and consented unto his death and kept the raiment of them that slew him.'
21 And he said unto me, 'Depart for I will send thee afar hence unto the gentiles.'"
22 They gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices and said, "Away with such a fellow from the earth: it is pity that he should live."
23 And as they cried and cast off their clothes, and threw dust into the air, 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.