8 Bible Verses about Armies, Roman

Now 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 palace. It was early in the morning, and they would not go into the governor's palace themselves, in order not to be defiled, so as to be unfit to eat the Passover supper.

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

When the captain heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to Him, to ask Him to come and bring his slave safe through the illness.

And the army captain and his men, who were keeping guard over Jesus, who felt the earthquake and saw all that was taking place, were terribly frightened, and said, "Surely this was God's Son."

When the captain saw what had taken place, he praised God and said, "He certainly was an innocent man!"

Now at Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a colonel in what was known as the Italian regiment,

Now while they were trying to kill him, news reached the colonel of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in a ferment.