³² Immediately he took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped beating Paul.

²⁷ "This man was seized by the Jews, and was about to be killed by them, when I came with the soldiers and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman.

¹⁵ What do you mean that you crush my people, And grind the face of the poor?" says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts.

⁴⁰ They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles, they beat them and charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

¹⁷ Then all the Greeks laid hold on Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. Gallio didn't care about any of these things.

¹⁹ I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.

²³ He called to himself two of the centurions, and said, "Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen, and two hundred men armed with spears, at the third hour of the night{about 9:00 PM}."

²⁴ He asked them to provide animals, that they might set Paul on one, and bring him safely to Felix the governor.

⁶ He even tried to profane the temple, and we arrested him.{TR adds "We wanted to judge him according to our law,"}