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The Acts of the Apostles indicates that Paul was a Roman citizen by birth, but Helmut Koester took issue with the evidence presented by the text. [ 50 ] [ 51 ] Some have suggested that Paul's ancestors may have been freedmen from among the thousands of Jews whom Pompey took as slaves in 63 BC , which would explain how he was born into Roman ...
The Bible's Book of Acts indicates that Paul the Apostle was a Roman citizen by birth – though not clearly specifying which class of citizenship – a fact which had considerable bearing on Paul's career and on the religion of Christianity.
The Latin phrase cīvis Rōmānus sum (Classical Latin: [ˈkiːwis roːˈmaːnus ˈsũː]; "I am (a) Roman citizen") is a phrase used in Cicero's In Verrem as a plea for the legal rights of a Roman citizen. [1] When travelling across the Roman Empire, safety was said to be guaranteed to anyone who declared, "civis Romanus sum".
Roman citizenship was conferred in a number of ways. (1) The most common way was being born from two Roman citizens. This is the claim Paul makes when asked how he obtained his citizenship ("I am a citizen by birth" Acts 22.28), which implies that both of Paul's parents were Jewish Roman citizens (cf. #4).
Saul of Tarsus - later known as Paul the Apostle, a Pharisee and Roman citizen who would later become an apostle - participated in Stephen's execution. [4] The only source for information about Stephen is the New Testament book of the Acts of the Apostles. [5]
And Paul said, "But I was born a citizen." [12] The claim of Paul to be 'free-born' here means that his citizenship status 'goes back at least to his father's generation, possibly earlier, to the period of the civil wars, when Roman generals granted citizenship to a number of individuals and associations in the Greek East who had supported ...
Paul has been detained, initially within the Roman barracks in Jerusalem, and then in Caesarea, some 110 kilometres (68 mi) from the Jewish capital. [5] He has asserted that by birth he is a Roman citizen (Acts 22:25-28), and his trial therefore needs to be undertaken in recognition of his citizenship.
He confessed to Paul: "I became a Roman citizen by paying a large amount of money." [29] Inhabitants of cities that were granted municipium status (as were many capital cities of civitates peregrinae) acquired Latin rights, which included connubium, the right to marry a Roman citizen. The children of such a union would inherit citizenship ...