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23 Summoning two of the centurions he said: “Prepare two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen to go to Caesarea at the third hour of the night;
24 and provide mounts to set Paul on so as to deliver him safely to Felix, the governor.”
25 He wrote a letter with this content:
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; but I came with the troops and rescued him, having learned that he is a Roman.
28 And wanting to know the reason they were accusing him, I took him down to their council.
29 I found that he was being accused about questions of their law, but there was no accusation worthy of death or bonds.
30 When I was told that the Jews were about to execute a plot against the man, I sent him to you at once, also directing his accusers to state the charges against him before you. Farewell.”
31 So the soldiers, according to their orders, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.
32 The next day they left the horsemen to go on with him and returned to the barracks.
33 When they entered Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him.
34 When the governor read it, he asked what province he was from; learning that it was Cilicia,
35 he said, “I will give you a hearing when your accusers also arrive.” And he commanded him to be guarded in Herod’s Praetorium.