the centurion: Acts 10:1, Acts 23:17, Acts 27:1, Acts 27:3, Acts 27:43; Matthew 8:8, Matthew 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. Acts 22:27-28, Acts 16:37, Acts 25:16