When the centurion heard that, he went to the uppercaptain, and told him saying: What intendest thou to do? This man is a Roman.
This man was taken of the jewes, and should have been killed of them: Then came I with soldiers, and rescued him, and perceived that he was a Roman.
Then straightway departed from him they which should have examined him. And the captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman: because he had bound him.
Then the company, and the Captain, and the ministers of the jewes, took Iesus and bound him,
And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto an undercaptain: Is it lawful for you to scourge a Roman uncondemned?
¶ The uppercaptain came to him, and said: Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said: Yee