Acts 23:25-30

25Then the soldiers' leader wrote a letter to Felix. He sent this message:

26‘I, Claudius Lysias, write this letter. I say “hello” to you, Felix, our great ruler.

27I am sending this man to you. The Jews took hold of him and they wanted to kill him. I found out that he is a citizen of Rome. Because of that, I took my soldiers and I saved him from them.

28The Jews said that he had done some wrong things. I wanted to know what was really true, so I took him to a meeting of their leaders.

29The Jewish leaders said that he had not obeyed their own laws. But that was all. We could not put him in prison or kill him because of these things. That would not be right.

30But a group of Jews decided to kill him. Someone told me about this, so I decided to send him to you immediately. I have told the Jewish leaders also to come to you in Caesarea. They can then tell you why they say that this man has done bad things.’