Chapter 23, verses 22-31
22
So the commanding officer let the young man go, charging him, “Tell no one that you have revealed these things to me.”
23
He called to himself two of the centurions, and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen, and two hundred men armed with spears, at the third hour of the night.”
24
He asked them to provide animals, that they might set Paul on one, and bring him safely to Felix the governor.
25
He wrote a letter like this:
26
“Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor Felix: Greetings.
27
“This man was seized by the Jews, and was about to be killed by them, when I came with the soldiers and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman.
28
Desiring to know the cause why they accused him, I brought him down to their council.
29
I found him to be accused about questions of their law, but not to be charged with anything worthy of death or of imprisonment.
30
When I was told that the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to bring their accusations against him before you. Farewell.”
31
So the soldiers, carrying out their orders, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.
