Acts 23:26-34

²⁶“Dear Felix I am Claudius Lysias. I’m writing to your honour, Felix, the governor of this country. I hope you are good and happy.

²⁷I’m sending this man, Paul, to you. Some Jews grabbed him and they were starting to kill him, but somebody told me that he is a Roman, so I got my soldiers and we saved him.

²⁸Then I wanted to know about the bad thing those Jews blamed him for, so I took him to their Jewish council.

²⁹I found out that they only blamed him for things in their Jewish law. He has not broken any of our Roman laws, so it is not right for us to kill him or put him in jail.

³⁰And right now somebody told me that some Jews are secretly thinking about a way to kill Paul, so I’m sending him to you. I reckon you can judge him properly there. And I told the Jews that want to blame him, ‘Go and do that in the court at Caesarea.’” That is the letter that the big boss of the soldiers wrote.

³¹So the soldiers did everything their big boss told them to do. They got Paul and took him with them that night, and they went to the town called Antipatris.

³²The next day, the soldiers that didn’t ride horses went back to their big house in Jerusalem, and the soldiers on horses kept going with Paul.

³³After they got to Caesarea on their horses, they gave Paul to the governor, and they gave him the letter too.

³⁴The governor read the letter and then he asked Paul, “What country do you come from?” Paul said, “I’m from Cilicia country.”