Acts 23:23-30

23Then summoning two of the centurions, he said, “Have two hundred soldiers ready by the third hour of the night (9:00 p.m.) to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen;

24also provide mounts for Paul to ride, and bring him safely to Felix the governor.”

25And [after instructing the centurions] he wrote a letter to this effect:

26“Claudius Lysias, to the most excellent governor Felix, greetings.

27This man was seized [as a prisoner] by the Jews and was about to be killed by them, when I came upon him with the troops and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman citizen.

28And wanting to know the exact charge which they were making against him, I brought him down to their Council (Sanhedrin, Jewish High Court);

29and I discovered that he was accused in regard to questions and issues in their Law, but [he was] under no accusation that would call for the penalty of death or [even] for imprisonment.

30When I was told that there would be a plot against the man, I sent him to you immediately, also directing his accusers to bring their charges against him before you.”