If we let him go on in this way, everybody will have belief in him and the Romans will come and take away our place and our nation.

Teaching rules of living which it is not right for us to have or to keep, being Romans.

But Paul said to them, They have given us who are Romans a public whipping without judging us, and have put us in prison. Will they now send us out secretly? no, truly, let them come themselves and take us out.

And the police gave an account of these words to the authorities, and they were full of fear on hearing that they were Romans;

Then after three days he sent for the chief men of the Jews: and when they had come together, he said to them, My brothers, though I had done nothing against the people or the ways of our fathers, I was given, a prisoner from Jerusalem, into the hands of the Romans.