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.