22:19. And I said: Lord, they know that I cast into prison and beat in every synagogue them that believed in thee.
22:20. And when the blood of Stephen thy witness was shed, I stood by and consented: and kept the garments of them that killed him.
22:21. And he said to me: Go, for unto the Gentiles afar off will I send thee.
22:22. And they heard him until this word and then lifted up their voice, saying: Away with such an one from the earth. For it is not fit that he should live.
22:23. And as they cried out and threw off their garments and cast dust into the air,
22:24. The tribune commanded him to be brought into the castle, and that he should be scourged and tortured: to know for what cause they did so cry out against him.
22:25. And when they had bound him with thongs, Paul saith to the centurion that stood by him: Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman and uncondemned?
22:26. Which the centurion hearing, went to the tribune and told him, saying: What art thou about to do? For this man is a Roman citizen.
22:27. And the tribune coming, said to him: Tell me. Art thou a Roman? But he said: Yea.
22:28. And the tribune answered: I obtained the being free of this city with a great sum. And Paul said: But I was born so.