Acts 23:23-35

23Then he summoned two of the centurions and said, “Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea along with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen by nine o’clock tonight,

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

25He wrote a letter that went like this:

26Claudius Lysias to His Excellency Governor Felix, greetings.

27This man was seized by the Jews and they were about to kill him, when I came up with the detachment and rescued him, because I had learned that he was a Roman citizen.

28Since I wanted to know what charge they were accusing him of, I brought him down to their council.

29I found he was accused with reference to controversial questions about their law, but no charge against him deserved death or imprisonment.

30When I was informed there would be a plot against this man, I sent him to you at once, also ordering his accusers to state their charges against him before you.

31So the soldiers, in accordance with their orders, took Paul and brought him to Antipatris during the night.

32The next day they let the horsemen go on with him, and they returned to the barracks.

33When the horsemen came to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him.

34When the governor had read the letter, he asked what province he was from. When he learned that he was from Cilicia,

35he said, “I will give you a hearing when your accusers arrive too.” Then he ordered that Paul be kept under guard in Herod’s palace.