Acts 22:28 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²⁸ The commander replied, ‘I bought this citizenship for a large amount of money.’ ‘But I was born a citizen,’ Paul said.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ The commandant replied, I purchased this citizenship [as a capital investment] for a big price. Paul said, But I was born [Roman]!

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this citizenship. And Paul said, But I am a Roman born.

Common English Bible

²⁸ The commander replied, “It cost me a lot of money to buy my citizenship.” Paul said, “I’m a citizen by birth.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ And the tribune responded, "I obtained this citizenship at great cost." And Paul said, "But I was born to it."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁸ And the tribune answered: I obtained the being free of this city with a great sum. And Paul said: But I was born so.

Acts 22:28 Tagairtí Cros

Acts 22:27

The commander came and said to him, ‘Tell me, are you a Roman citizen? ’ ‘Yes,’ he said.

Acts 22:29

So those who were about to examine him withdrew from him immediately. The commander too was alarmed when he realised Paul was a Roman citizen and he had bound him.

Ephesians 2:12

At that time you were without Christ, excluded from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners to the covenants of promise,  without hope  and without God in the world.

Ephesians 2:19

So, then, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with the saints, and members of God’s household,