So the chief captain [then] let the young man depart, and charged [him, See thou] tell no man that thou hast showed these things to me (23:22)

And he called unto [him] two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night; (23:23)

And provide [them] beasts, that they may set Paul on, and bring [him] safe unto Felix the governor (23:24)

And he wrote a letter after this manner: (23:25)

Claudius Lysias unto the most excellent governor Felix [sendeth] greeting (23:26)

This man was taken of the Jews, and should have been killed of them: then came I with an army, and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman (23:27)

And when I would have known the cause wherefore they accused him, I brought him forth into their council: (23:28)

Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds (23:29)

And when it was told me how that the Jews laid wait for the man, I sent straightway to thee, and gave commandment to his accusers also to say before thee what [they had] against him. Farewell (23:30)

Then the soldiers, as it was commanded them, took Paul, and brought [him] by night to Antipatris (23:31)

On the morrow they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the castle: (23:32)

Who, when they came to Caesarea, and delivered the epistle to the governor, presented Paul also before him (23:33)

And when the governor had read [the letter], he asked of what province he was. And when he understood that [he was] of Cilicia; (23:34)

I will hear thee, said he, when thine accusers are also come. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod's judgment hall (23:35)

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