Acts 23:26-34

²⁶'Claudius Lysias, to the most noble governor Felix, hail:

²⁷This man having been taken by the Jews, and being about to be killed by them — having come with the soldiery, I rescued him, having learned that he is a Roman;

²⁸and, intending to know the cause for which they were accusing him, I brought him down to their sanhedrim,

²⁹whom I found accused concerning questions of their law, and having no accusation worthy of death or bonds;

³⁰and a plot having been intimated to me against this man — about to be of the Jews — at once I sent unto thee, having given command also to the accusers to say the things against him before thee; be strong.'

³¹Then, indeed, the soldiers according to that directed them, having taken up Paul, brought him through the night to Antipatris,

³²and on the morrow, having suffered the horsemen to go on with him, they returned to the castle;

³³those having entered into Caesarea, and delivered the letter to the governor, did present also Paul to him.

³⁴And the governor having read it, and inquired of what province he is, and understood that he is from Cilicia;