Acts 23:27-34

²⁷This man, having been taken by the Jews, and being about to be killed by them, I came up with the military and took out of their hands, having learned that he was a Roman.

²⁸And desiring to know the charge on which they accused him, I brought him down to their council;

²⁹whom I found to be accused of questions of their law, but to have no charge laid against him making him worthy of death or of bonds.

³⁰But having received information of a plot about to be put in execution against the man by the Jews, I have immediately sent him to thee, commanding also his accusers to say before thee the things that are against him. Farewell.

³¹The soldiers therefore, according to what was ordered them, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris,

³²and on the morrow, having left the horsemen to go with him, returned to the fortress.

³³And these, having entered into Caesarea, and given up the letter to the governor, presented Paul also to him.

³⁴And having read it, and asked of what eparchy he was, and learned that he was of Cilicia,