Acts 23:23-35 - To Caesarea By Night

²³ And he called to him two of the centurions, saying, Make 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, whereon they may set Paul, and carry him safe to Felix the governor.

²⁵ And he wrote a letter after this manner:

²⁶ Claudius Lysias to the moss excellent governor Felix, greeting.

²⁷ This man was taken by the Jews, and was about to be killed by them; but I came upon them with the soldiery, and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman. ²⁸ And wishing to know the crime of which they accused him, I brought him down to their council; ²⁹ but I found him to be accused only on account of questions of their law, and to have nothing laid to his charge deserving death or bonds. ³⁰ And having been informed of a plot against the man, I sent him at once to thee, and directed his accusers also to bring their charges against him before thee.

³¹ Then the soldiers, as was commanded them, took Paul, and brought him by night to Antipatris. ³² But on the morrow they left the horsemen to go on with him, and returned to the castle. ³³ And they, when they had come to Caesarea, and delivered the letter to the governor, presented Paul also before him. ³⁴ And having read the letter, he asked of what province he was; and when he understood that he was of Cilicia, ³⁵ he said, I will hear thee fully, when thy accusers also have arrived. And he ordered him to be kept in Herods palace.