Acts 23:23–35

²³And having called to him certain two of the centurions, he said, Prepare two hundred soldiers that they may go as far as Caesarea, and seventy horsemen, and two hundred light-armed footmen, for the third hour of the night. ²⁴And he ordered them to provide beasts, that they might set Paul on them and carry him safe through to Felix the governor, ²⁵having written a letter, couched in this form: ²⁶Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor Felix, greeting. ²⁷This man, having been taken by the Jews, and being about to be killed by them, I came up with the military and took out of their hands, having learned that he was a Roman. ²⁸And desiring to know the charge on which they accused him, I brought him down to their council; ²⁹whom I found to be accused of questions of their law, but to have no charge laid against him making him worthy of death or of bonds. ³⁰But having received information of a plot about to be put in execution against the man by the Jews, I have immediately sent him to thee, commanding also his accusers to say before thee the things that are against him. Farewell. ³¹The soldiers therefore, according to what was ordered them, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris, ³²and on the morrow, having left the horsemen to go with him, returned to the fortress. ³³And these, having entered into Caesarea, and given up the letter to the governor, presented Paul also to him. ³⁴And having read it, and asked of what eparchy he was, and learned that he was of Cilicia, ³⁵he said, I will hear thee fully when thine accusers also are arrived. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod’s praetorium.