Acts 23:18-31

¹⁸So he took him, and brought him to the chief captain, and saith, Paul the prisoner called me unto him, and asked me to bring this young man unto thee, who hath something to say to thee.

¹⁹And the chief captain took him by the hand, and going aside asked him privately, What is it that thou hast to tell me?

²⁰And he said, The Jews have agreed to ask thee to bring down Paul to-morrow unto the council, as though thou wouldest inquire somewhat more exactly concerning him.

²¹Do not thou therefore yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, who have bound themselves under a curse, neither to eat nor to drink till they have slain him: and now are they ready, looking for the promise from thee.

²²So the chief captain let the young man go, charging him, Tell no man that thou hast signified these things to me.

²³And he called unto him two of the centurions, and said, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go as far as Cæsarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night:

²⁴and he bade them provide beasts, that they might set Paul thereon, and bring him safe unto Felix the governor.

²⁵And he wrote a letter after this form:

²⁶Claudius Lysias unto the most excellent governor Felix, greeting.

²⁷This man was seized by the Jews, and was about to be slain of them, when I came upon them with the soldiers and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman.

²⁸And desiring to know the cause wherefore they accused him, I brought him down unto their council:

²⁹whom I found to be accused about questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.

³⁰And when it was shown to me that there would be a plot against the man, I sent him to thee forthwith, charging his accusers also to speak against him before thee.

³¹So the soldiers, as it was commanded them, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.