²³Then having called two centurions, he said to them: Make ready two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea: and seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen, for the third hour of the night.

²⁴And provide beasts, that they may set Paul on and bring him safe to Felix the governor.

²⁵(For he feared lest perhaps the Jews might take him away by force and kill him: and he should afterwards be slandered, as if he was to take money.) And he wrote a letter after this manner:

²⁶Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor, Felix, greeting:

²⁷This man, being taken by the Jews and ready to be killed by them, I rescued, coming in with an army, understanding that he is a Roman.

²⁸And meaning to know the cause which they objected unto him, I brought him forth into their council.

²⁹Whom I found to be accused concerning questions of their law; but having nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bands.

³⁰And when I was told of ambushes that they had prepared for him, I sent him to thee, signifying also to his accusers to plead before thee. Farewell.

³¹Then the soldiers, according as it was commanded them, taking Paul, brought him by night to Antipatris.

³²And the next day, leaving the horsemen to go with him, they returned to the castle.

³³Who, when they were come to Caesarea and had delivered the letter to the governor, did also present Paul before him.

³⁴And when he had read it and had asked of what province he was and understood that he was of Cilicia:

³⁵I will hear thee, said he, when thy accusers come. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod’s judgment hall.

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