Commentaries:Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Acts 22:28
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.
Acts 22:27-29
art thou a Roman?—showing that this being of Tarsus, which he had told him before (Acts 21:39) did not necessarily imply that he was a Roman citizen.
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