23. Then he summoned two of the centurions and said, “Get two hundred soldiers ready to go to Caesarea by nine o’clock tonight, along with seventy horsemen and two hundred auxiliaries.
24. Provide mounts for Paul to ride and give him safe conduct to Felix the governor.”
25. Then he wrote a letter with this content:
26. “Claudius Lysias to his excellency the governor Felix, greetings.
27. This man, seized by the Jews and about to be murdered by them, I rescued after intervening with my troops when I learned that he was a Roman citizen.
28. I wanted to learn the reason for their accusations against him so I brought him down to their Sanhedrin.
29. I discovered that he was accused in matters of controversial questions of their law and not of any charge deserving death or imprisonment.
30. Since it was brought to my attention that there will be a plot against the man, I am sending him to you at once, and have also notified his accusers to state (their case) against him before you.”
31. So the soldiers, according to their orders, took Paul and escorted him by night to Antipatris.
32. The next day they returned to the compound, leaving the horsemen to complete the journey with him.
33. When they arrived in Caesarea they delivered the letter to the governor and presented Paul to him.
34. When he had read it and asked to what province he belonged, and learned that he was from Cilicia,
35. he said, “I shall hear your case when your accusers arrive.” Then he ordered that he be held in custody in Herod’s praetorium.