Coverdale(i)
23 And he called vnto him two vndercaptaynes, and sayde: Make redye two hundreth soudyers, that they maye go to Cesarea, and thre score and ten horsmen, and two hundreth speare men at the thirde houre of the nighte,
24 and delyuer the beastes, that they maye set Paul theron, and brynge him safe vnto Felix the debyte,
25 and he wrote a letter on this maner:
26 Claudius Lysias, vnto the most mightie Debyte Felix, gretynge.
27 The Iewes had taken this man, and wolde haue slayne him, then came I with soudyers, and rescued him, and perceaued that he is a Romayne.
28 And whan I wolde haue knowne the cause, wherfore they accused hi, I broughte him in to their councell:
29 then perceaued I, that he was accused aboute questions of their lawe. But there was no accusacion worthy of death or of bondes.
30 And whan it was shewed me, that certayne Iewes layed wayte for him, I sent him straight waye vnto the, and commaunded the accusers also, that loke what they had agaynst him, they shulde tell the same before the. Fare well.
31 The soudyers (as it was commaunded them) toke Paul, and broughte him to Antipatras.
32 But on the nexte daye, they lefte ye horse men to go with him, and turned agayne to the castell.