Acts 22:28

Plain English Version

Then the big boss soldier said, “I’m a Roman too. I paid a lot of money to get the men in a Roman office to write my name on the list of all the Roman people, to make me a Roman.” Paul said, “I’ve been a Roman all my life. They wrote my name in that book as soon as I was born.”

Cross References

Acts 22:27

The big boss soldier was shocked. He went to Paul and said, “Tell me, are you really a Roman?” Paul said, “Yes, I am.”

Acts 22:29

Those soldiers that were going to whip Paul, they heard him say that he was a Roman, so they left him. The big boss soldier was frightened too. He remembered that he told the soldiers to tie Paul’s arms and whip him, and it was against the law for him to do that to a Roman.

Ephesians 2:19

So now, you mob that are not Jews, you are not strangers any more. You don’t belong to a different nation any more, but you belong to God’s family, and you are in God’s mob now.