Bible Verses About Soldiers

When Sha’ul got to the steps, he actually had to be carried by the soldiers, because the mob was so wild —

so the commander ordered him brought into the barracks and directed that he be interrogated and whipped, in order to find out why they were yelling at him like this.

But as they were stretching him out with thongs to be flogged, Sha’ul said to the captain standing by, “Is it legal for you to whip a man who is a Roman citizen and hasn’t even had a trial?”

When the captain heard that, he went and reported it to the commander, “Do you realize what you’re doing? This man is a Roman citizen!”

The commander came and said to Sha’ul, “Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?” “Yes,” he said.

The commander replied, “I bought this citizenship for a sizeable sum of money.” “But I was born to it,” Sha’ul said.

Then he summoned two of the captains and said, “Get two hundred infantry soldiers ready to leave for Caesarea at nine o’clock tonight, and seventy mounted cavalry and two hundred spearmen;

So the soldiers, following their orders, took Sha’ul during the night and brought him to Antipatris,

then returned to the barracks after leaving the cavalry to go on with him.

The cavalry took him to Caesarea, delivered the letter to the governor, and handed Sha’ul over to him.

Once it had been decided that we should set sail for Italy, they handed Sha’ul and some other prisoners over to an officer of the Emperor’s Regiment named Julius.

Sha’ul said to the officer and the soldiers, “Unless these men remain aboard the ship, you yourselves cannot be saved.”

At this point the soldiers’ thought was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim off and escape.

But the officer, wanting to save Sha’ul, kept them from carrying out their plan. He ordered those who could swim to throw themselves overboard first and head for shore,

And when we arrived at Rome, the officer allowed Sha’ul to stay by himself, though guarded by a soldier.