But Paul said to them, "They beat us publicly, although we were uncondemned Romans, and they cast [us] into prison, and now do they cast us out secretly? No indeed! Let them come themselves and lead us out."

And the officers related to the magistrates these words, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans.

But as they were stretching him out with the thongs, Paul said to the centurion standing there, "Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman, and uncondemned?"

Then the commander came and said to him, "Tell me, are you a Roman?" He said, "Yes."

But when I came to understand him to have done nothing worthy of death, and also he had appealed to His Majesty the Emperor, I decided to send him.

and I found that he was accused concerning questions of their law, [but] had no accusation [against him] worthy of death or chains.

and when they withdrew, they were speaking among themselves, saying, "This man practices nothing worthy of death or chains."

who, when they had examined me, were wanting to release me because there was no cause for my case.

For he knew that they had handed Him over because of envy.

Then the governor said, "Why, what evil did He do?" But they cried out all the more, saying, "Let Him be crucified!"

And Pilate, seeing that nothing was being gained, but rather a riot was starting, taking water, he washed his hands clean in front of the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this just [Man]. You see to it."

but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor falsifying the word of God, but by the disclosure of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience before God.