Acts 23:23-33

²³Summoning two of the centurions he said: “Prepare two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen to go to Caesarea at the third hour of the night;

²⁴and provide mounts to set Paul on so as to deliver him safely to Felix, the governor.”

²⁵He wrote a letter with this content:

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

²⁷This man was seized by the Jews and was about to be killed by them; but I came with the troops and rescued him, having learned that he is a Roman.

²⁸And wanting to know the reason they were accusing him, I took him down to their council.

²⁹I found that he was being accused about questions of their law, but there was no accusation worthy of death or bonds.

³⁰When I was told that the Jews were about to execute a plot against the man, I sent him to you at once, also directing his accusers to state the charges against him before you. Farewell.”

³¹So the soldiers, according to their orders, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.

³²The next day they left the horsemen to go on with him and returned to the barracks.

³³When they entered Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him.