Therefore, although God has overlooked such times of ignorance, he now commands all people everywhere to repent,

So the commanding officer came and asked Paul, “Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?” He replied, “Yes.”

After they had beaten them severely, they threw them into prison and commanded the jailer to guard them securely.

Then the commanding officer sent the young man away, directing him, “Tell no one that you have reported these things to me.”

The commanding officer answered, “I acquired this citizenship with a large sum of money.” “But I was even born a citizen,” Paul replied.

He commanded us to preach to the people and to warn them that he is the one appointed by God as judge of the living and the dead.

While they were trying to kill him, a report was sent up to the commanding officer of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.

He immediately took soldiers and centurions and ran down to the crowd. When they saw the commanding officer and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

When the centurion heard this, he went to the commanding officer and reported it, saying, “What are you about to do? For this man is a Roman citizen.”

Paul called one of the centurions and said, “Take this young man to the commanding officer, for he has something to report to him.”

The commanding officer took him by the hand, withdrew privately, and asked, “What is it that you want to report to me?”

Then Felix, who understood the facts concerning the Way more accurately, adjourned their hearing, saying, “When Lysias the commanding officer comes down, I will decide your case.”

Then the commanding officer came up and arrested him and ordered him to be tied up with two chains; he then asked who he was and what he had done.

As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he said to the commanding officer, “May I say something to you?” The officer replied, “Do you know Greek?

When the argument became so great the commanding officer feared that they would tear Paul to pieces, he ordered the detachment to go down, take him away from them by force, and bring him into the barracks.

For this is what the Lord has commanded us: ‘I have appointed you to be a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”

Therefore I sent for you at once, and you were kind enough to come. So now we are all here in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has commanded you to say to us.”

While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests and the commander of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,

Then those who were about to interrogate him stayed away from him, and the commanding officer was frightened when he realized that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had had him tied up.

So the centurion took him and brought him to the commanding officer and said, “The prisoner Paul called me and asked me to bring this young man to you because he has something to tell you.”