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

Acts 22:27
The commander went to Paul and asked, "Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?" "Yes," he answered.

Acts 22:29
Then those who were about to interrogate Paul stepped back, and the commander himself was alarmed when he realized that he had put a Roman citizen in chains.

Ephesians 2:12
remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

Ephesians 2:19
Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God's household,

And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born.