Kisah Para Rasul 22:25

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Tetapi ketika Paulus ditelentangkan untuk disesah, berkatalah ia kepada perwira yang bertugas: "Bolehkah kamu menyesah seorang warganegara Rum, apalagi tanpa diadili?"

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Tetapi ketika Paulus ditelentangkan untuk disesah, berkatalah ia kepada perwira yang bertugas: "Bolehkah kamu menyesah seorang warganegara Rum, apalagi tanpa diadili?"

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Setelah ia diikat dengan tali kulit, maka Paulus pun berkatalah kepada penghulu laskar yang berdiri dekat itu, "Bolehkah kamu menyesah seorang Rum sebelum ia dihukumkan?"

Contextual Overview

²² And they gaue him audience vnto this worde, and then lift vp their voyces and sayde: away with suche a felowe from the earth, for it is no reason yt he shoulde lyue. ²³ And as they cryed, and caste of their clothes, and threwe dust into the ayre, ²⁴ The chiefe captaine comaunded hym to be brought into the castle, & bade that he shoulde be scourged, and examined, that he myght knowe wherefore they cryed so on hym. ²⁵ And as they boude him with thonges, Paul saide vnto ye Centurion that stoode by: Is it lawfull for you to scourge a man that is a Romane, and vncondempned? ²⁶ When the Centurion hearde that, he went and tolde the vpper captaine, saying: Take heede what thou doest, for this man is a Romane. ²⁷ Then the vpper captaine came, & saide vnto him: Tel me, art thou a Romane? He sayde, yea. ²⁸ And the chiefe captaine aunswered: With a great summe obteyned I this freedome. And Paul saide: I was free borne. ²⁹ Then strayghtway departed fro him they which should haue examined him. And the hie captaine also was afrayde, after he knew that he was a Romane, and because he had bounde hym. ³⁰ On the morowe, because he woulde haue knowen the certaintie wherefore he was accused of the Iewes, he loosed hym from his bandes, and commaunded the hye priestes & all the counsell to come together, & brought Paul foorth, and set hym before them.

Bible Verse Review
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the centurion: Acts 10:1, Acts 23:17, Acts 27:1, Acts 27:3, Acts 27:43, Matthew 8:8, Matthew 27:54

Is it: By the Roman law, no magistrate was allowed to punish a Roman citizen capitally, or by inflicting stripes, or even binding him; and the single expression, I am a Roman citizen, arrested their severest decrees, and obtained, if not an escape, at least a delay of his punishment. Acts 22:27, Acts 22:28, Acts 16:37, Acts 25:16

Reciprocal: Matthew 8:5 - a centurion Matthew 27:2 - bound Luke 7:8 - under John 19:1 - scourged Acts 21:11 - So shall Acts 21:33 - be Acts 21:39 - a citizen Acts 22:24 - that he should Acts 22:29 - the chief Acts 23:27 - having Acts 25:10 - I stand Acts 25:11 - no man Acts 28:18 - General Hebrews 11:35 - tortured

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And as they bound him with thongs,.... To a pillar, in order to be scourged, according to the Roman manner d. Nor was the Jewish form of scourging much unlike, and perhaps might be now used, which was this; when they scourge anyone they bind both his hands to a pillar, here and there --and they do not strike him standing nor sitting, but inclining e; for the pillar to which he was bound was fixed in the ground, and so high as for a man to lean upon f; and some say it was two cubits, and others a cubit and a half high g: and the word here used signifies an extension, or distension; perhaps the stretching out of the arms to the pillar, and a bending forward of the whole body, which fitly expresses the stooping inclining posture of the person scourged, and was a very proper one for such a punishment: now as they were thus fastening him with thongs to the pillar, and putting him in this position,

Paul said unto the centurion that stood by; to see the soldiers execute the orders received from the chief captain:

is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned? Though the apostle puts this by way of question, yet he knew full well what the Roman laws were in such cases; he did not put this through ignorance, or for information, but to let them know who he was, and to put them in mind of these laws, and of their duty; for, according to the Porcian law, Roman citizens were not to be beaten h. Hence, says i Cicero,

"it is a heinous sin to bind a Roman citizen, it is wickedness to beat him, it is next to parricide to kill him, and what shall I say to crucify him?''

And, according to the Valerian law, it was not lawful for magistrates to condemn a Roman without hearing the cause, and pleading in it; and such condemned persons might appeal to the populace k.

d Lipsius de Cruce, l. 2. c. 4. e Misna Maccot, c. 3. sect. 12, 13. f Bartenora in ib. g Yom Tob in ib. h Cicero pro Rabirio Orat. 18. i In Verrem Orat. 10. k Pompon. Laetus de Legibus, p. 157.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bound him with thongs - With cords, preparatory to scourging.

Is it lawful ... - It was directly contrary to the Roman law to bind and scourge a Roman citizen. See the notes on Acts 16:36-37.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 22:25. And as they bound him, &c.] They were going to tie him to a post, that they might scourge him.

Is it lawful, &c.] The Roman law absolutely forbade the binding of a Roman citizen. Acts 16:37; Acts 16:37.