If we let Him go on this way, everybody will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and blot out both our city and nation."

and to advocate practices which it is against the law for us Romans to accept or observe."

Three days later, he invited the leading men of the Jews to come to see him, and when they came, he said to them, "Brothers, I have done nothing against our people or the customs of our forefathers; yet at Jerusalem I was turned over to the Romans as a prisoner.

After examining me the Romans wanted to set me free, because I was innocent of any crime that deserved the death penalty.

three times I have been beaten by the Romans, once I was pelted with stones; three times I have been shipwrecked, and once I have spent a day and a night adrift at sea.

You know that everyone here who belongs to the Roman province of Asia has deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.

When He got back to Capernaum, a Roman military captain came up to Him and kept begging Him,

There was a Roman captain who had a slave that was very dear to him, and he was sick and at the point of death,

So Judas got together the Roman garrison and some attendants from the high priests and Pharisees, and went there with lanterns and torches and weapons.

After him, at the time of the enrollment for the Roman tax, Judas the Galilean appeared and influenced people to desert and follow him, but he too perished and all his followers were scattered.

From there we went on to Philippi, a Roman colony, the leading town in that part of Macedonia. In this town we stayed some days.

But Paul said to them, "They beat us in public and that without a trial, and put us in jail although we are Roman citizens! Let them come here themselves and take us out!"

The policemen reported this message to the chiefs of the police court, and they became alarmed when they heard that they were Roman citizens,

But when they had tied him for the flogging, Paul asked the captain who was standing by, "Is it lawful for you to flog a Roman, and one who is uncondemned at that?"

When the captain heard that, he went to the colonel and reported it. Then he asked him, "What are you going to do? This man is a Roman citizen."

So the colonel came to Paul and asked, "Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?" He answered, "Yes."

So the men who were going to examine him left him at once, and the colonel himself was frightened when he learned that he was a Roman citizen and that he had had him bound.

This man had been seized by the Jews and they were on the point of killing him when I came upon them with the soldiers and rescued him, because I had learned that he was a Roman citizen.

I answered them that it was not the Roman custom to give up anyone for punishment until the accused met his accusers face to face and had an opportunity to defend himself against their accusations.