And the commander answered, “With a large sum I obtained this citizenship.” And Sha’ul said, “But I was even born so.”
And having come, the commander said to him, “Say to me, are you a Roman?” And he said, “Yes.”
Then at once 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.
that at that time you were without Messiah, excluded from the citizenship of Yisra’ĕ
So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the set-apart ones and members of the household of Elohim,