At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort,
And when it was decided that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan Cohort named Julius.
Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the governor's headquarters, and they gathered the whole battalion before him.
But Philip found himself at Azotus, and as he passed through he preached the gospel to all the towns until he came to Caesarea.
When he had entered Capernaum, a centurion came forward to him, appealing to him, “Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, suffering terribly.” And he said to him, “I will come and heal him.” But the centurion replied, “Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof, but only say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I too am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. And I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”
But the centurion, wishing to save Paul, kept them from carrying out their plan. He ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and make for the land,
Now three days after Festus had arrived in the province, he went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.
When the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe and said, “Truly this was the Son of God!”
Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay in the ship, you cannot be saved.”
Now when some days had passed, Agrippa the king and Bernice arrived at Caesarea and greeted Festus.
When they had come to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they presented Paul also before him.
Then he called two of the centurions and said, “Get ready two hundred soldiers, with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen to go as far as Caesarea at the third hour of the night.
But when they had stretched him out for the whips, Paul said to the centurion who was standing by, “Is it lawful for you to flog a man who is a Roman citizen and uncondemned?”
On the next day we departed and came to Caesarea, and we entered the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.
So the band of soldiers and their captain and the officers of the Jews arrested Jesus and bound him.
So Judas, having procured a band of soldiers and some officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, went there with lanterns and torches and weapons.
Now a centurion had a servant who was sick and at the point of death, who was highly valued by him.
And the soldiers led him away inside the palace (that is, the governor's headquarters), and they called together the whole battalion.
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