Acts 23:23-35 - To Caesarea By Night
23 And calling to him two certain persons of the centurions, he said, Get ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen, at the third hour of the night; 24 and provide beasts, that setting Paul thereon, you may convey him safely to Felix the governor.
25 And he wrote a letter containing this form of words:
26 Claudius Lysias to his excellence the governor Felix, greeting.
27 This person had been seized by the Jews, and was ready to be slain by them: but coming on them with the guard, I rescued him out of their hands, having understood that he was a Roman citizen. 28 And desirous of knowing the crime of which they accused him, I brought him down into their sanhedrim 29 and found him accused of some disputed points of their law; but to have no charge laid against him worthy of death or of bonds. 30 But it being discovered to me that a design was forming against the man's [life] by the Jews, immediately I sent him to thee, commanding his accusers also to produce what they have against him before thee. Farewel.
31 Hereupon then the soldiers, as it was commanded them, took Paul, and brought him by night unto Antipatris. 32 And on the morrow, leaving the horsemen to go on with him, they returned to the fortress. 33 So when they came to Caesarea, and had delivered the letter to the governor, they presented Paul also to him. 34 Then when the governor had read it, and asked of what province he was, and understood he was of Cilicia; 35 I will give thee a thorough hearing, said he, when thy accusers are also come hither. And he commanded them to be kept under guard in Herod's praetorium.