the centurion: Act 10:1, Act 23:17, Act 27:1, Act 27:3, Act 27:43; Mat 8:8, Mat 27:54
Is it: By the Roman law, no magistrate was allowed to punish a Roman citizen capitally, or by inflicting stripes, or even binding him; and the single expression, I am a Roman citizen, arrested their severest decrees, and obtained, if not an escape, at least a delay of his punishment. Act 22:27-28, Act 16:37, Act 25:16