Acts 23:23–35

²³and having called near a certain two of the centurions, he said, ‘Make ready soldiers two hundred, that they may go on unto Caesarea, and horsemen seventy, and spearmen two hundred, from the third hour of the night; ²⁴beasts also provide, that, having set Paul on, they may bring him safe unto Felix the governor;’ ²⁵he having written a letter after this description: ²⁶‘Claudius Lysias, to the most noble governor Felix, hail: ²⁷This man having been taken by the Jews, and being about to be killed by them—having come with the soldiery, I rescued him, having learned that he is a Roman; ²⁸and, intending to know the cause for which they were accusing him, I brought him down to their sanhedrim, ²⁹whom I found accused concerning questions of their law, and having no accusation worthy of death or bonds; ³⁰and a plot having been intimated to me against this man—about to be of the Jews—at once I sent unto thee, having given command also to the accusers to say the things against him before thee; be strong.’ ³¹Then, indeed, the soldiers according to that directed them, having taken up Paul, brought him through the night to Antipatris, ³²and on the morrow, having suffered the horsemen to go on with him, they returned to the castle; ³³those having entered into Caesarea, and delivered the letter to the governor, did present also Paul to him. ³⁴And the governor having read it, and inquired of what province he is, and understood that he is from Cilicia; ³⁵‘I will hear thee—said he—when thine accusers also may have come;’ he also commanded him to be kept in the praetorium of Herod.

Chapter 24