The Crowd's Fury; Paul Claims Roman Rights

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And they heard him vnto this worde, but then they lift vp their voyces, and sayd, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not meete that he should liue.

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And as they cried and cast off their clothes, and threw dust into the aire,

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The chiefe captaine commanded him to be led into the castle, and bade that he should be scourged, and examined, that he might knowe wherefore they cryed so on him.

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And as they bound him with thongs, Paul sayd vnto the Centurion that stood by, Is it lawfull for you to scourge one that is a Romane, and not condemned?

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Nowe when the Centurion heard it, hee went, and tolde the chiefe captaine, saying, Take heede what thou doest: for this man is a Romane.

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Then the chiefe captaine came, and sayd to him, Tel me, art thou a Romane? And he said, Yea.

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And the chiefe captaine answered, With a great summe obtained I this freedome. Then Paul sayd, But I was so borne.

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Then straightway they departed from him, which should haue examined him: and the chiefe captaine also was afrayd, after he knewe that hee was a Romane, and that he had bound him.

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