Acts 22:27-30

27And the chiliarch coming up said to him, Tell me, Art thou a Roman? And he said, Yes. 28And the chiliarch answered, I, for a great sum, bought this citizenship. And Paul said, But I was also [free] born. 29Immediately therefore those who were going to examine him left him, and the chiliarch also was afraid when he ascertained that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him. 30And on the morrow, desirous to know the certainty [of the matter] why he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him, and commanded the chief priests and all the council to meet, and having brought Paul down set him before them.