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Acts 22:28 · BSB
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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…got to say in about 11 minutes. Huh? Saul was his Hebrew name. Paul is his Greek name. And he was from Tarsus and he was a Roman citizen by birth.Acts 22:25-28tells us who he was by birth. And so being a Roman citizen and also a Jew, he would have had both names from birth. Mike, go ahead. Right, but…
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…it with meekness and fear. We saw a couple of examples. We saw Acts 22 .1. We saw Acts 26 .24 -32. And I will... And we saw that the word there, inActs 22, verse 28, I want us to go to 28. Acts 26, 28. Acts 26, 28. Agrippa said to Paul, then Agrippa said to Paul, you almost persuaded me to become a Christian.…
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…could be a Roman citizen like Paul, or you could purchase your citizenship like the Roman commander that he spoke with in Jerusalem. And that's inActs 22, verse 28. And for Roman citizens there already was a form of unity enforced through Patrimana, Roman peace, a governed peace, a subjugated, militarily…
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…his whole life. And that was the fact that he had two passports. Born in Tarsus. He had Roman citizenship. We know that specifically because ofActs 22, verse 28. The commander answered, with a large sum, I obtained the citizenship. And Paul said, But I was born a citizen. And all the oxygen sucked out of…
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…to describe citizenship. In Acts 28, there's a Roman centurion who finds out that Paul is a citizen, asks how much he paid for the citizenship. InActs 22, verse 28, Paul says, I didn't pay anything for it. I was born with citizenship. And the centurion can't believe it. I mean, he would pay anything. He had to…
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