Acts 22:29 meaning and explanation

Then those who were about to interrogate Paul stepped back, and the commander himself was alarmed when he realized that he had put a Roman citizen in chains.

Acts 22:29, Berean Standard Bible

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Paul has been seized in the temple and is speaking to a hostile crowd, then to the Roman commander who ordered him flogged. In verse 29 the interrogation collapses: the soldiers about to strap him down step back, and the commander is alarmed because he has bound a Roman citizen without trial.

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