Acts 23:21-30

²¹But let them not perswade thee: for there lie in waite for him of them, more then fourtie men, which haue bound themselues with a curse, that they will neither eate nor drinke, till they haue killed him: and nowe are they readie, and waite for thy promise.

²²The chiefe captaine then let the yong man depart, after hee had charged him to vtter it to no man, that he had shewed him these things.

²³And he called vnto him two certaine Centurions, saying, Make readie two hundred souldiers, that they may go to Cæsarea, and horsemen three score and ten, and two hundred with dartes, at the thirde houre of the night.

²⁴And let them make readie an horse, that Paul being set on, may be brought safe vnto Felix the Gouernour.

²⁵And he wrote an epistle in this maner:

²⁶Claudius Lysias vnto the most noble Gouernour Felix sendeth greeting.

²⁷As this man was taken of the Iewes, and shoulde haue bene killed of them, I came vpon them with the garison, and rescued him, perceiuing that he was a Romane.

²⁸And when I would haue knowen the cause, wherefore they accused him, I brought him forth into their Council.

²⁹There I perceiued that hee was accused of questions of their Lawe, but had no crime worthy of death, or of bondes.

³⁰And when it was shewed me, how that the Iewes layd waite for the man, I sent him straightway to thee, and commanded his accusers to speake before thee the thinges that they had against him. Farewell.