Acts 24:7 Cross References - Coverdale

⁷ But Lysias the hye captayne came vpo vs, and with greate violence delyuered him out of oure handes,

¹⁶ For they can not slepe, excepte they haue first done some myschefe: nether take they eny rest, excepte they haue first done some harme.

³¹ But whan they wete aboute to kyll him, tydinges came to the chefe captayne of the company, that all Ierusalem was moued. ³² Which immediatly toke soudyers and captaynes vnto him, and ranne in amoge them. Whan they sawe the captayne and the soudyers, they lefte smytinge of Paul. ³³ Whan the captayne came nye, he toke him, and commaunded him to be bounde with two cheynes, and axed what he was, and what he had done.

³⁵ And wha he came to the steppes, it fortuned that he was borne of ye soudyers because of the violence of the people.

¹⁰ But whan the discension was greate, ye vpper captayne feared, that Paul shulde haue bene pluckte a sonder of them, and commaunded the soudyers to go downe, and to take him from them, and to brynge him in to the castell.

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.