When they had tied him up with thongs, Sha'ul asked the centurion who stood by, *Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman, and not found guilty?*
Immediately those who were about to examine him departed from him, and the commanding officer also was afraid when he realized that he was a Roman, because he had bound him.
*This man was seized by the Judeans, and was about to be killed by them, when I came with the soldiers and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman.