Acts 23:23-35

23He summoned two of his centurions and said, “Get two hundred soldiers ready with seventy cavalry and two hundred spearmen to go to Caesarea at nine tonight.

24Also provide mounts to ride so that Paul may be brought safely to Felix the governor.”

25He wrote the following letter:

26Claudius Lysias, To the most excellent governor Felix: Greetings.

27When this man had been seized by the Jews and was about to be killed by them, I arrived with my troops and rescued him because I learned that he is a Roman citizen.

28Wanting to know the charge they were accusing him of, I brought him down before their Sanhedrin.

29I found out that the accusations were concerning questions of their law, and that there was no charge that merited death or imprisonment.

30When I was informed that there was a plot against the man, I sent him to you right away. I also ordered his accusers to state their case against him in your presence.

31So the soldiers took Paul during the night and brought him to Antipatris as they were ordered.

32The next day, they returned to the barracks, allowing the cavalry to go on with him.

33When these men entered Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him.

34After he read it, he asked what province he was from. When he learned he was from Cilicia,

35he said, “I will give you a hearing whenever your accusers also get here.” He ordered that he be kept under guard in Herod’s palace.