Deeds (Act) of Apostles 23:26-34

²⁶Claudius Lysias to the best Felix, president, health. (Claudius Lysias to the most excellent Governor Felix, greetings and best wishes.)

²⁷This man that was taken (hold) of (by) the Jews, and began to be slain, I came upon them with mine host (or I came upon them with my army), 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 (or and I brought him in to their Council).

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

³⁰And when it was told me of the ambush, that they (had) arrayed for him, or And when it was told to me of the treasons, that they (had) made ready to him, I sent him to thee, and I warned also the accusers, that they say at thee, (or and I have told his accusers, that they must tell their charges to thee). Farewell.

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

³²And in the day (pur)suing, when the horsemen were left, that should go with him, they turned again to the castles. (And on the following day, the soldiers returned to the fortress, leaving the horsemen, who would go with him.)

³³And when they came to Caesarea, they took the epistle to the president, and they set also Paul before him. (And when they arrived at Caesarea, they delivered the letter to the Governor, and they also put Paul before him.)

³⁴And when he had read, and asked, of what province he was, and knew that he was of Cilicia,