Deeds (Act) of Apostles 23:23-33

²³And he called together two cen-turions, and he said to them, Make ye ready two hundred knights, that they go to Caesarea, and horsemen seventy, and spearmen two hundred, from the third hour of the night.

²⁴And make ye ready an horse, for Paul to ride on, to lead him safe to Felix, the president. For the tribune dreaded, lest the Jews would take him by the way, and slay him, and afterward he might be challenged, as he had taken money.

²⁵And He wrote to him an epistle, containing these things.

²⁶Claudius Lysias to the best Felix, president, health.

²⁷This man that was taken of the Jews, and began to be slain, I came upon them with mine host, and delivered him from them, when I knew that he was a Roman.

²⁸And I would know the cause, which they putted against him; and I led him in to the council of them.

²⁹And I found, that he was accused of questions of their law, but he had no crime worthy the death, either bonds.

³⁰And when it was told me of the ambush, that they arrayed for him, or of the treasons, that they made ready to him, I sent him to thee, and I warned also the accusers, that they say at thee. Farewell.

³¹And so the knights as they were commanded, took Paul, and led him by night into Antipatris.

³²And in the day pursuing, when the horsemen were left, that should go with him, they turned again to the castles.

³³And when they came to Caesarea, they took the epistle to the president, and they set also Paul before him.