Matthew(i)
23 And he called vnto hym two vnder captaynes, saiynge: make readye two hundred souldyers to go to Cesarea, and horsmen thre score and ten, and speare men two hondred at the thyrde houre of the nyght.
24 And delyuer them beastes that they may put Paule on, and bryng hym safe vnto Felix the hye debitie,
25 and wrote a letter in thys maner.
26 Claudius Lisias to the moste myghtye rular Felix sendeth gretynges.
27 Thys man was taken of the Iewes, and shoulde haue ben kylled of them. Then came I with souldiers and reserued hym, and perceyued that he was a Romayne.
28 And when I woulde haue knowen the cause, wherfor they accused him, I brought hym forth into theyr counsell:
29 there perceyued I that he was accused of questyons of theyr lawe: but was not gyltye of any thynge worthy of death or of boundes.
30 Afterward when it was shewed me, how that the Iewes layde wayte for the man, I sent him strayght waye to the, and gaue commaundement to hys accusars, yf they had oughte agaynste hym to tell it vnto the. Fare well.
31 Then the souldyours as it was commaunded them, toke Paule and broughte hym by nyght to Antipatras.
32 On the morowe they lefte the horsmen to go with hym and returned vnto the castle.
33 Whiche when they came to Cesarea, they delyuered the Epistle to the debitie, and presented Paul before hym.
34 When the debitie had redde the letter, he axed of what countreye he was: and when he vnderstode that he was of Cicill,
35 I wyll heare the (sayde he) when thyne accusars are come also: and commaunded hym to be kepte in Herodes Pallayce.