the commander ordered him to be brought into the barracks, and said that he should be examined by scourging, so that he might know for what reason they shouted so against him.

Women received their dead raised to life again. And others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.

And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said to the centurion who stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman, and not condemned by trial?

When the centurion heard that, he went and told the commander, saying, Take heed what you are about to do, for this man is a Roman.

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

Then they came and begged them and brought them out, and asked them to depart out of the city.