Charles Ellicott Commentary Acts 22:27

"And the chief captain came and said unto him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? And he said, Yea." — Acts 22:27 (ASV)

Are you a Roman?—The pronoun is emphatic: “You, the Jew speaking both Greek and Hebrew, are you a citizen of Rome?” The combination of so many more or less discordant elements was so exceptional as to be almost incredible.