8 Bible Verses about Armies, Roman
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In those days an edict was issued by the Emperor Augustus that a census of the whole world should be taken.
Then they took Jesus from Caiaphas to the governor's house. It was early in the morning, and they would not go into the governor's house themselves, to avoid being ceremonially defiled and to be able to eat the Passover supper.
When he got back to Capernaum, a Roman captain came up and appealed to him,
When the captain heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, to ask him to come and save his slave's life.
And the captain and the men with him who were watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake and all that was happening, were dreadfully frightened and said, "He surely must have been a son of God!"
When the captain saw what had happened he praised God, and said, "This man was really innocent!"
There was at Caesarea a man named Cornelius, a captain in what was known as the Italian regiment.
They were trying to kill him when the news reached the colonel of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in a tumult.