Acts 22:28

“I paid a high price for my citizenship,” said the commander. “But I was born a citizen,” Paul replied.

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KJV

And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born.

ASV

And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this citizenship. And Paul said, But I am a Roman born.

YLT

and the chief captain answered, `I, with a great sum, did obtain this citizenship;' but Paul said, `But I have been even born so .'

DBT

And the chiliarch answered, I, for a great sum, bought this citizenship. And Paul said, But I was also [free] born.

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Let it suffice to the martyr to have purged his own sins: it is the part of ingratitude or of pride to lavish upon others also what one has obtained at a high price. Who has redeemed another's death by his own, but the Son of God alone? For even in His very passion He set the robber free.

Tertullian· On Modesty, 220patristic

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And the chief captain answered, with a great sum obtained I this freedom,....

John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)reformed

With a great sum obtained I this freedom - So it appears that the freedom, even of Rome, might be purchased, and that it was sold at a very high price. But I was free born - It has been generally believed that the inhabitants of Tarsus, born in that city, had the same rights and privileges as Roman citizens, in consequence of a charter or grant from Julius Caesar.

Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832evangelical

With a great sum obtained I this freedom--Roman citizenship was bought and sold in the reign of Claudius, we know, at a high price: at a subsequent date, for next to nothing. But to put in a false claim to this privilege was a capital crime. I was free born--born to it, by purchase, or in reward of services, on the part of his father or some ancestor.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

But I was free born - Not barely as being born at Tarsus; for this was not Roman colony. But probably either his father, or some of his ancestors, had been made free of Rome, for some military service. We learn hence, that we are under no obligation as Christians to give up our civil privileges (which we are to receive and prize as the gift of God) to every insolent invader.

John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament, 1755evangelical

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