Paul Is Brought to Caesarea
23 And when he called to him two of the centurions, he said, “Make ready two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen to proceed to aCaesarea by the third hour of the night, 24 and provide mounts to put Paul on and bring him safely to aFelix the governor.” 25 And he wrote a letter having this form:
26 “Claudius Lysias, to the amost excellent governor Felix, bgreetings.
27 “When this man was arrested by the Jews and was about to be slain by them, aI came up to them with the troops and rescued him, bhaving learned that he was a Roman.
28 And awanting to ascertain the charge for which they were accusing him, I bbrought him down to their cSanhedrin;
29 and I found him to be accused over aquestions about their Law, but under bno accusation deserving death or imprisonment.
30 “And when I was ainformed that there would be ba plot against the man, I sent him to you at once, also instructing chis accusers to speak against him before you.”
31 So the soldiers, according to their orders, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris. 32 But the next day, leaving athe horsemen to go on with him, they returned to bthe barracks. 33 When these had come to aCaesarea and delivered the letter to bthe governor, they also presented Paul to him. 34 And when he had read it, he asked from what aprovince he was, and when he learned that bhe was from Cilicia, 35 he said, “I will give you a hearing after your aaccusers arrive also,” giving orders for him to be bkept in Herod’s Praetorium.