Acts 23:18-31

¹⁸So he took him to the chief captain and said, Paul, the prisoner, made a request to me to take this young man to you, for he has something to say to you.

¹⁹And the chief took him by the hand and, going on one side, said to him privately, What is it you have to say to me?

²⁰And he said, The Jews are in agreement together to make a request to you for Paul to be taken, on the day after this, into the Sanhedrin, to be questioned in greater detail.

²¹But do not give way to them, for more than forty of them are waiting for him, having taken an oath not to take food or drink till they have put him to death: and now they are ready, waiting for your order.

²²So the chief captain let the young man go, saying to him, Do not say to anyone that you have given me word of these things.

²³And he sent for two captains and said, Make ready two hundred men, with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen, to go to Caesarea, at the third hour of the night:

²⁴And get beasts so that they may put Paul on them, and take him safely to Felix, the ruler.

²⁵And he sent a letter in these words:

²⁶Claudius Lysias, to the most noble ruler, Felix, peace be with you.

²⁷This man was taken by the Jews, and was about to be put to death by them, when I came on them with the army and took him out of danger, having knowledge that he was a Roman.

²⁸And, desiring to get at the reason for their attack on him, I took him down to their Sanhedrin:

²⁹Then it became clear to me that it was a question of their law, and that nothing was said against him which might be a reason for prison or death.

³⁰And when news was given to me that a secret design was being made against the man, I sent him straight away to you, giving orders to those who are against him to make their statements before you.

³¹So the armed men, as they were ordered, took Paul and came by night to Antipatris.