The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and ordered that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know why they cried out so against him.
But Paul said to them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have put us in prison; and now do they thrust us out privately? Certainly not; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.
And some cried out one thing, some another, among the multitude: and when he could not know the truth because of the tumult, he commanded him to be carried into the castle.
And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing that Paul would be pulled in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.