Roman Empire
9 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
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Citizenship In by Birth
- Acts 22:28 “I paid a high price for my citizenship,” said the commander. “But I was born a citizen,” Paul replied.
Citizenship In by Purchase
- Acts 22:28 “I paid a high price for my citizenship,” said the commander. “But I was born a citizen,” Paul replied.
Ruled by Augustus Caesar
- Luke 2:1 Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that a census should be taken of the whole empire.
Ruled by Claudius Caesar
- Acts 18:2 There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to visit them,
Ruled by Nero
- Philippians 4:22 All the saints send you greetings, especially those from the household of Caesar.
Ruled by Tiberius Caesar
- Luke 3:1 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, while Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,
The Right of Appeal
- Acts 25:10 Paul replied, “I am standing before the judgment seat of Caesar, where I ought to be tried. I have done nothing wrong to the Jews, as you yourself know very well.
- Acts 25:21 But when Paul appealed to be held over for the decision of the Emperor, I ordered that he be held until I could send him to Caesar.”
The Right of Trial
- Acts 25:16 I told them that it is not the Roman custom to hand a man over before he has had an opportunity to face his accusers and defend himself against their charges.
The Rights of Citizens
- Acts 16:37 But Paul said to the officers, “They beat us publicly without a trial and threw us into prison, even though we are Roman citizens. And now do they want to send us away secretly? Absolutely not! Let them come themselves and escort us out!”
- Acts 22:25–29 But as they stretched him out to strap him down, Paul said to the centurion standing there, “Is it lawful for you to flog a Roman citizen without a trial?” …
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Paul is Confined in the FortressTrialCaesarCourts of Justice of the Romans in JudeaAugustusThe Roman Empire
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.