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And they gave him audience unto this word, and [then] lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a [fellow] from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live (22:22) And as they cried out, and cast off [their] clothes, and threw dust into the air, (22:23) The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him (22:24) And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned? (22:25) When the centurion heard [that], he went and told the chief captain, saying, Take heed what thou doest: for this man is a Roman (22:26) Then the chief captain came, and said unto him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yea (22:27) And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was [free] born (22:28) Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him (22:29) On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from [his] bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul down, and set him before them
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