Acts 22:24
Good News Translation
The Roman commander ordered his men to take Paul into the fort, and he told them to whip him in order to find out why the Jews were screaming like this against him.

New Revised Standard Version
the tribune directed that he was to be brought into the barracks, and ordered him to be examined by flogging, to find out the reason for this outcry against him.

Contemporary English Version
The Roman commander ordered Paul to be taken into the fortress and beaten with a whip. He did this to find out why the people were screaming at Paul.

New American Bible
the cohort commander ordered him to be brought into the compound and gave instruction that he be interrogated under the lash to determine the reason why they were making such an outcry against him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

The chief.

Acts 21:31,32 And as they went about to kill him, it was told the tribune of the band that all Jerusalem was in confusion. . . .

Acts 23:10,27 And when there arose a great dissension, the tribune, fearing lest Paul should be pulled in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and to take him by force from among them and to bring him into the castle. . . .

that he should.

Acts 22:25-29 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? . . .

Acts 16:22,23,37 And the people ran together against them: and the magistrates, rending off their clothes, commanded them to be beaten with rods. . . .

John 19:1 Then therefore Pilate took Jesus and scourged him.

Hebrews 11:35 Women received their dead raised to life again. But others were racked, not accepting deliverance, that they might find a better resurrection.

Context
Paul the Roman Citizen
23And as they cried out and threw off their garments and cast dust into the air, 24The 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. 25And 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?…
Cross References
Acts 21:34
And some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude. And when he could not know the certainty for the tumult, he commanded him to be carried into the castle.

Acts 21:37
And as Paul was about to be brought into the castle, he saith to the tribune: May I speak something to thee? Who said: Canst thou speak Greek?

Acts 22:29
Immediately therefore they departed from him that were about to torture him. The tribune also was afraid after he understood that he was a Roman citizen and because he had bound him.

Acts 28:18
Who, when they had examined me, would have released me, for that there was no cause of death in me.

Acts 22:23
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