24 the [a]commander ordered him to be brought into (A)the barracks, stating that he should be (B)examined by scourging so that he might find out the reason why they were shouting against him that way. 25 But when they stretched him out [b]with thongs, Paul said to the centurion who was standing by, “Is it [c]lawful for you to scourge (C)a man who is a Roman and uncondemned?” 26 When the centurion heard this, he went to the [d]commander and told him, saying, “What are you about to do? For this man is a Roman.”

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 22:24 I.e. chiliarch, in command of one thousand troops
  2. Acts 22:25 Or for the whip
  3. Acts 22:25 Interrogation by torture was a procedure used with slaves
  4. Acts 22:26 V 24, note 1