Soldiers: Perform Escort Duty
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Acts 21:31–33, 35
While they were trying to kill him, the commander of the Roman regiment received a report that all Jerusalem was in turmoil. / Immediately he took some soldiers and centurions and ran down to the crowd. When the people saw the commander and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul. / The commander came up and arrested Paul, ordering that he be bound with two chains. Then he asked who he was and what he had done.
Acts 22:24–28
the commander ordered that Paul be brought into the barracks. He directed that Paul be flogged and interrogated to determine the reason for this outcry against him. / 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?” / On hearing this, the centurion went and reported it to the commander. “What are you going to do?” he said. “This man is a Roman citizen.”
Acts 23:23, 31–33
Then he called two of his centurions and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen to go to Caesarea in the third hour of the night. / So the soldiers followed their orders and brought Paul by night to Antipatris. / When the horsemen arrived in Caesarea, they delivered the letter to the governor and presented Paul to him.
Acts 27:1, 31, 42, 43
When it was decided that we would sail for Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were handed over to a centurion named Julius, who belonged to the Imperial Regiment. / But Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men remain with the ship, you cannot be saved.” / The soldiers planned to kill the prisoners so none of them could swim to freedom.
Acts 28:16
When we arrived in Rome, Paul was permitted to stay by himself, with a soldier to guard him.