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Acts 22:26
When the centurion heard [that], he went and told the chief captain, saying, Take heed what thou doest; for this man is a Roman.
Acts 22:26 · Webster Bible
Acts 22:26 in other translations
When the centurion heard that, he went and told the chief captain, saying, Take heed what thou doest: for this man is a Roman.
On hearing this, the centurion went and reported it to the commander. “What are you going to do?” he said. “This man is a Roman citizen.”
When the centurion heard it, he went to the commanding officer and told him, “Watch what you are about to do, for this man is a Roman!”
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In context
23 And as they cried out, and cast off [their] clothes, and threw dust into the air,
24 The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know for what cause they cried so against him.
25 And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said to the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?
26 When the centurion heard [that], he went and told the chief captain, saying, Take heed what thou doest; for this man is a Roman.
27 Then the chief captain came, and said to him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yes.
28 And the chief captain answered, With a great sum I obtained this freedom. And Paul said, But I was [free] born.
29 Then forthwith they departed from him who were about to examine him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.
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