The men who were to have examined Paul immediately drew back, and the Officer, finding that Paul was a Roman citizen, was alarmed at having put him in chains.
Then he went up to Paul, arrested him, ordered him to be doubly chained, and proceeded to inquire who he was, and what he had been doing.
"I had to pay a heavy price for my position as citizen," said the Officer. "I am one by birth," rejoined Paul.
Women received back their dead raised to life. Some were tortured on the wheel, and refused release in order that they might rise to a better life.