23. Then summoning two of the centurions, he said, Have two hundred footmen ready by the third hour of the night (about 9:00 p.m.) to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen.
24. Also provide beasts for mounts for Paul to ride, and bring him in safety to Felix the governor.
25. And he wrote a letter having this message:
26. Claudius Lysias sends greetings to His Excellency Felix the governor.
27. This man was seized [as prisoner] by the Jews, and was about to be killed by them when I came upon them with the troops and rescued him, because I learned that he is a Roman citizen.