18. So the centurion took him and brought him to the commanding officer and said, “The prisoner Paul called me and asked me to bring this young man to you because he has something to tell you.”
19. The commanding officer took him by the hand, withdrew privately, and asked, “What is it that you want to report to me?”
20. He replied, “The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as if they were going to inquire more thoroughly about him.
21. So do not let them persuade you to do this, because more than forty of them are lying in ambush for him. They have bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink anything until they have killed him, and now they are ready, waiting for you to agree to their request.”
22. Then the commanding officer sent the young man away, directing him, “Tell no one that you have reported these things to me.”
23. Then he summoned two of the centurions and said, “Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea along with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen by nine o’clock tonight,
24. and provide mounts for Paul to ride so that he may be brought safely to Felix the governor.”
25. He wrote a letter that went like this:
31. So the soldiers, in accordance with their orders, took Paul and brought him to Antipatris during the night.
32. The next day they let the horsemen go on with him, and they returned to the barracks.
33. When the horsemen came to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him.
34. When the governor had read the letter, he asked what province he was from. When he learned that he was from Cilicia,
35. he said, “I will give you a hearing when your accusers arrive too.” Then he ordered that Paul be kept under guard in Herod’s palace.