Acts 23:23-35 ▼

23 And having summoned a certain two of the centurions, he said, “Prepare for the third hour of the night two hundred soldiers and seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen, so that they might go as far as Caesarea,

24 and provide mounts so that, having set Paul upon them, they might bring him safely to Felix the governor,”

25 having written a letter having this form:

26 Claudius Lysias, To the most excellent Governor Felix: Greetings.

27 This man having been seized by the Jews and being about to be killed by them—having come up with the troop, I rescued him, having learned that he is a Roman.

28 And resolving to know the charge on account of which they were accusing him, I brought him down to their Council,

29 whom I found being accused concerning questions of their law, but having no accusation worthy of death or of chains.

30 And a plot having been disclosed to me to be against the man, I sent him to you at once, also having instructed the accusers to speak these things against him before you.

31 Therefore indeed the soldiers, according to that having been ordered them, having taken Paul, brought him to Antipatris by night.

32 And on the next day, having allowed the horsemen to go with him, they returned to the barracks;

33 those having entered into Caesarea and having delivered the letter to the governor, also presented Paul to him.

34 And having read it and having asked what province he is from, and having learned that he is from Cilicia,

35 he was saying, “I will hear you fully when your accusers may have arrived also,” having commanded him to be guarded in the Praetorium of Herod.