New English Translation

Acts 23:22-35 New English Translation (NET)

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.