Acts 22:25 (KJV)

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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

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the centurion. Ac 10:1 Ac 23:17 Ac 27:1 Ac 27:3 Ac 27:43 Mt 8:8 Mt 27:54

Is it.By the Roman law, no magistrate was allowed to punish a Roman citizen capitally, or by inflicting stripes, or even binding him; and the single expression, I am a Roman citizen, arrested their severest decrees, and obtained, if not an escape, at least a delay of his punishment. Ac 22:27 Ac 22:28 Ac 16:37 Ac 25:16

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