But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us in public without trial, men who are Romans, and have thrown us into prison; and now are they sending us away secretly? No indeed! But let them come themselves and bring us out.”

And this they did, sending it in charge of Barnabas and Saul to the elders.

For it seems absurd to me in sending a prisoner, not to indicate also the charges against him.”

rescuing you from the Jewish people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you,