Roman Empire

How Nave’s arranged it

• Ruled by
• Augustus CaesarLuke 2:1
• Tiberius CaesarLuke 3:1
• Claudius CaesarActs 18:2
• NeroPhilippians 4:22
• Citizenship in
• By birthActs 22:28
• By purchaseActs 22:28
• The rights of citizensActs 16:37Acts 22:25–29
• The right of trialActs 25:16
• The right of appealActs 25:10Acts 25:21

The passages, in Bible order (10)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 10 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Luke 2:1

   Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that a census should be taken of the whole empire.

   ›Commentary on Luke 2:12 voices

   “He has rightly added the name of the governor, to mark the course of time. For if the names of the Consuls are affixed to the tables of prices, how much more ought the time to be noted down, of that event which was the redemption of all men? There is described a secular registration, implied a spiritual, to be laid before the King not of earth but of Heaven; a registering of faith: a census of souls. For the old census of the Synagogue was abolished, a new census of the Church was preparing.

   “And it came to pass in those days,.... When John the Baptist was born, and Christ was conceived, and his mother pregnant with him, and the time of his birth drew on. The Ethiopic version reads, "in that day"; as if it was the same day in which John was circumcised, and Zacharias delivered the above song of praise: that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus; second emperor of Rome; the name Caesar was common to all the emperors, as Pharaoh to the Egyptians, and afterwards Ptolemy.

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2. Luke 3:1

   In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, while Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

   ›Commentary on Luke 3:12 voices

   “The Son of God being about to gather together the Church, commences His work in His servant. And so it is well said, The word of the Lord came to John, that the Church should begin not from man, but from the Word. But Luke, in order to declare that John was a prophet, rightly used these few words, The word of the Lord came to him. He adds nothing else, for they need not their own judgment who are filled with the Word of God. By saying this one thing, he has therefore declared all.

   “Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar,....

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3. Acts 16:37

   But Paul said to the officers, “They beat us publicly without a trial and threw us into prison, even though we are Roman citizens. And now do they want to send us away secretly? Absolutely not! Let them come themselves and escort us out!”

   ›Commentary on Acts 16:372 voices

   “When, therefore, Christ fulfilled these things which God would have done, and which He foretold many ages before by His prophets, incited by these things, and ignorant of the sacred Scriptures, they conspired together to condemn their God.

   “But Paul said unto them,....

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4. Acts 18:2

   There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to visit them,

   ›Commentary on Acts 18:21 voice

   "Because Claudius had commanded." Under Nero, Paul reached perfection, and under Claudius a war was kindled against the Jews, and they, as dangerous people, were expelled from Rome. Therefore Providence arranged that he was brought there as a prisoner, so that he would not be …

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5. Acts 22:25–29

   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?”

   ›Commentary on Acts 22:25–291 voice

   “How does Paul say, "I am a man, a Jew, a citizen of Tarsus in Cilicia, not of an insignificant city," and shortly after, "If a man is a Roman and uncondemned," and the following? How, then, having said these things, and not at another …

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6. Acts 22:28

   “I paid a high price for my citizenship,” said the commander. “But I was born a citizen,” Paul replied.

   ›Commentary on Acts 22:282 voices

   “Let it suffice to the martyr to have purged his own sins: it is the part of ingratitude or of pride to lavish upon others also what one has obtained at a high price. Who has redeemed another's death by his own, but the Son of God alone? For even in His very passion He set the robber free.

   “And the chief captain answered, with a great sum obtained I this freedom,....

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7. Acts 25:10

   Paul replied, “I am standing before the judgment seat of Caesar, where I ought to be tried. I have done nothing wrong to the Jews, as you yourself know very well.

   ›Commentary on Acts 25:102 voices

   "I stand before Caesar's judgment seat" means: I wish to go to Rome to Caesar and there receive judgment. I demand this, he says, from you.

   “Then said Paul, I stand at Caesar's judgment seat,....

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8. Acts 25:16

   I told them that it is not the Roman custom to hand a man over before he has had an opportunity to face his accusers and defend himself against their charges.

   ›Commentary on Acts 25:162 voices

   “It is clear that Pilate, having handed Jesus over to the Jews, did this with a villainous purpose, since he despised both the judgment of God and Roman law in order to please the murderers by delivering innocent blood to death, although for such an …

   “To whom I answered,....

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9. Acts 25:21

   But when Paul appealed to be held over for the decision of the Emperor, I ordered that he be held until I could send him to Caesar.”

   ›Commentary on Acts 25:212 voices

   "On the review of Augustus." He calls the emperor Augustus, as well as Caesar; he also calls him lord (sovereign).

   “But when Paul had appealed to be reserved,....

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10. Philippians 4:22

    All the saints send you greetings, especially those from the household of Caesar.

    ›Commentary on Philippians 4:222 voices

    “These opinions, Florinus, that I may speak in mild terms, are not of sound doctrine; these opinions are not consonant to the Church, and involve their votaries in the utmost impiety; these opinions, even the heretics beyond the Church's pale have never ventured to broach; these opinions, those presbyters who preceded us, and who were conversant with the apostles, did not hand down to thee. For, while I was yet a boy, I saw thee in Lower Asia with Polycarp, distinguishing thyself in the royal court, and endeavouring to gain his approbation.

    “All the saints salute you,....

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