Acts 23:26-34

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

²⁷This man, having been arrested by the Jews, was about to be killed by them. I came upon them with the detachment of soldiers and rescued him, having learned that he is a Roman.

²⁸And desiring to know the cause for which they were accusing him, I took him down to their council;

²⁹and I found that he was accused concerning questions of their law, but had no accusation against him worthy of death or chains.

³⁰And when it became known to me that a plot against the man by the Jews was about to happen, I sent him at once to you, and also commanded the accusers to state the charges against him before you. Farewell.

³¹Then the soldiers, as they were commanded, took Paul and brought him during the night to Antipatris.

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

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

³⁴And when the governor read the letter, he asked what province he was from. And learning that he was from Cilicia,