Acts 22:25-28 Yet as they extend and stretch him forward with the thongs (or: straps), Paul says to the centurion, "If a person be (or: Since a man is) a Roman and is uncondemned, is it lawful or permissible for you to be scourging him (= Is it legal for you to flog a Roman who has not been condemned)?"

JMNT⁽ⁱ⁾ ²⁵ Yet as they extend and stretch him forward with the thongs (or: straps), Paul says to the centurion, "If a person [be] (or: Since a man [is]) a Roman and [is] uncondemned, is it lawful or permissible for you to be scourging [him] (= Is it legal for you to flog a Roman who has not been condemned)?" ²⁶ Well, upon hearing this the centurion, after approaching, reported to the commander, saying," [D adds: Consider] what you are about to be doing, for this man is a Roman [citizen]!" ²⁷ So after approaching [Paul], the commander said to him, "Tell me, are you a Roman [citizen]?" So [Paul] affirms, "Yes." [D reads: So he said, "I am."] ²⁸ Now the commander, after considering, responds, "I myself, with much capital (= a large sum of money), procured for myself this citizenship!" But Paul affirmed, "Yet I myself have even been born [one] (or: But I by heredity)."