Then immediately they departed from him who should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
But I, he says, was free born. So then his father also was a Roman. What then comes of this? He bound him, and brought him down to the Jews. On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty whereof he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from his bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul down, and set him before them.