Acts 23:23-31

23And having called to [him] certain two of the centurions, he said, Prepare two hundred soldiers that they may go as far as Caesarea, and seventy horsemen, and two hundred light-armed footmen, for the third hour of the night.

24And [he ordered them] to provide beasts, that they might set Paul on them and carry [him] safe through to Felix the governor,

25having written a letter, couched in this form:

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

27This man, having been taken by the Jews, and being about to be killed by them, I came up with the military and took out [of their hands], having learned that he was a Roman.

28And desiring to know the charge on which they accused him, I brought him down to their council;

29whom I found to be accused of questions of their law, but to have no charge laid against him [making him] worthy of death or of bonds.

30But having received information of a plot about to be put in execution against the man [by the Jews], I have immediately sent him to thee, commanding also his accusers to say before thee the things that are against him. [Farewell.]

31The soldiers therefore, according to what was ordered them, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris,