◄ Acts 22:28 ►
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Good News Translation
The commander said, "I became one by paying a large amount of money." "But I am one by birth," Paul answered.

New Revised Standard Version
The tribune answered, “It cost me a large sum of money to get my citizenship.” Paul said, “But I was born a citizen.”

Contemporary English Version
The commander then said, "I paid a lot of money to become a Roman citizen." But Paul replied, "I was born a Roman citizen."

New American Bible
The commander replied, “I acquired this citizenship for a large sum of money.” Paul said, “But I was born one.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the tribune answered: I obtained the being free of this city with a great sum. And Paul said: But I was born so.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the tribune answered: I obtained the being free of this city with a great sum. And Paul said: But I was born so.

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Context
Paul the Roman Citizen
…27And the tribune coming, said to him: Tell me. Art thou a Roman? But he said: Yea. 28And the tribune answered: I obtained the being free of this city with a great sum. And Paul said: But I was born so. 29Immediately 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.…
Cross References
Acts 22:27
And the tribune coming, said to him: Tell me. Art thou a Roman? But he said: Yea.

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.

Ephesians 2:12
That you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the conversation of Israel and strangers to the testament, having no hope of the promise and without God in this world.

Ephesians 2:19
Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners: but you are fellow citizens with the saints and the domestics of God,

Acts 22:27
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