Then immediately those who were about to examine him withdrew from him; and the commander was also afraid after he found out that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.
Then the commander came near and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and he asked who he was and what he had done.
Women received their dead raised to life again. Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.
The commander answered, “With a large sum I obtained this citizenship.” And Paul said, “But I was born a citizen.”