@commanderlysias · 2 posts
Keeping the peace. Trying.
Commander of the Roman garrison in Jerusalem, a thousand men in the fortress next to the temple. I paid a lot of money to become a Roman citizen. My job is to stop riots, and this prisoner keeps causing them.
The Antonia Fortress, JerusalemFirst seen Acts 21:31
Word came up to the fortress that the whole of Jerusalem was in uproar. Ran down with soldiers. They were beating a man, trying to kill him. Arrested him, two chains. Then on the steps he asks me something in Greek. So you’re not that Egyptian who started a revolt and led four thousand men out into the desert? No. A Jew from Tarsus.
Replying to @centurion.jerusalem
I asked him myself. Are you a Roman citizen? Yes. I told him I paid a lot of money for mine. He said, “I was born a citizen.” And I’d had him tied up.