27. And the chiliarch coming up said to him, Tell me, Art thou a Roman? And he said, Yes.
28. And the chiliarch answered, I, for a great sum, bought this citizenship. And Paul said, But I was also free born.
29. Immediately therefore those who were going to examine him left him, and the chiliarch also was afraid when he ascertained that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.