ROMAN EMPIRE

Passages on this topic · 13

• Luke 2:1

  Now in those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled.

• Luke 3:1

  Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

• Acts 16:37

  But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us publicly, without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do they now release us secretly? No, most certainly, but let them come themselves and bring us out!”

• Acts 18:2

  He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them,

• Acts 22:25

  When they had tied him up with thongs, Paul asked the centurion who stood by, “Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman, and not found guilty?”

• Acts 22:26

  When the centurion heard it, he went to the commanding officer and told him, “Watch what you are about to do, for this man is a Roman!”

• Acts 22:27

  The commanding officer came and asked him, “Tell me, are you a Roman?” He said, “Yes.”

• Acts 22:28

  The commanding officer answered, “I bought my citizenship for a great price.” Paul said, “But I was born a Roman.”

• Acts 22:29

  Immediately those who were about to examine him departed from him, and the commanding officer also was afraid when he realized that he was a Roman, because he had bound him.

• Acts 25:10

  But Paul said, “I am standing before Caesar’s judgment seat, where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you also know very well.

• Acts 25:16

  To whom I answered that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man to destruction, before the accused has met the accusers face to face, and has had opportunity to make his defense concerning the matter laid against him.

• Acts 25:21

  But when Paul had appealed to be kept for the decision of the emperor, I commanded him to be kept until I could send him to Caesar.”

• Philippians 4:22

  All the saints greet you, especially those who are of Caesar’s household.