Acts 23:23-33

23Calling two of his centurions, he said, “At the third hour of the night, prepare two hundred soldiers, along with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen, to proceed as far as Caesarea.

24Also provide mounts for Paul to ride, so that he might be brought safely to Felix the governor.”

25He wrote a letter to this effect:

26“Claudius Lysias, To the Most Excellent Governor Felix: Greetings!

27This man was seized by the Judean leaders and was about to be killed by them, when I came on the scene with the soldiers and rescued him, having learned that he is a Roman citizen.

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

29I found that he was accused concerning issues of their law, but charged with nothing worthy of death or imprisonment.

30When I was informed that there was a plot against the man, I sent him to you immediately, also ordering his accusers to state before you what they have against him.”

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

32On the next day, they returned to headquarters, leaving the horsemen to go on with him.

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