Acts 23:25-30 ▼

25 And [after instructing the centurions] he wrote a letter to this effect:

26 “Claudius Lysias, to the most excellent governor Felix, greetings.

27 This man was seized [as a prisoner] by the Jews and was about to be killed by them, when I came upon him with the troops and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman citizen.

28 And wanting to know the exact charge which they were making against him, I brought him down to their Council (Sanhedrin, Jewish High Court);

29 and I discovered that he was accused in regard to questions and issues in their Law, but [he was] under no accusation that would call for the penalty of death or [even] for imprisonment.

30 When I was told that there would be a plot against the man, I sent him to you immediately, also directing his accusers to bring their charges against him before you.”