Acts:23:12-35

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* Becoming and day , having formed a conspiracy the Jews , they bound with a curse themselves , saying neither to eat nor drink till they might kill the Paul ; * were and more forty those this the conspiracy having been engaged ; * who having come to the high –priests and the elders , said : With a curse we have cursed ourselves , of nothing to taste till we have killed the Paul . * Now therefore you make known to the commander with the sanhedrim , in order that him he may lead down to you , as being about to examine more accurately the things concerning him ; we and , before of the to have come nigh him , ready we are of the to kill him . * Having heard but the son of the sister of Paul the lying in wait , having come near and having gone into the castle , he related to the Paul . * Having summoned and the Paul one of the centurions , he said : The young man this lead thou to the commander ; he has for something to relate to him . * Indeed then having taken him led to the commander , and said : The prisoner Paul having summoned me , asked this the young man to lead to thee , having something to say to thee . * Having taken and the hand of him the commander , and having related by himself , he inquired : What is it which thou hast to relate to me ? * he said and : That the Jews agreed together of the to ask thee , that to –morrow into the sanhedrim thou mayest lead down the Paul , as being about something more accurately to investigate concerning him . * Thou therefore not shouldst be persuaded by the ; lie in wait for him of them men more forty , who bound with a curse themselves , neither to eat nor to drink till they killed him ; and now ready they are looking for the from thee promise . * The indeed then commander dismissed the young man , having charged to no one to speak out , that these things thou didst report to me . * And having summoned two certain of the centurions , he said : Make ready soldiers two hundred , that they may go to to Caesarea , and horsemen seventy , and spearmen two hundred , from third hour of the night ; * animals and to have provided that having mounted the Paul they might convey safely to Felix the governor ; * having written a letter containing the form this : * Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor Felix health . * The man this having been seized by the Jews , and being about to be killed by them , having come suddenly with the armed force I rescued him , having learned that a Roman he is . * Wishing and to know the cause on account of which they were accusing him , I led down him into the sanhedrim of them ; * whom I found being accused concerning questions of the law of them , nothing but worthy of death or bonds an accusation having . * Having been disclosed but to me a plot against the man to be about to be by the Jews , instantly I sent to thee , having commanded also the accusers to say the things against him before thee . Farewell . * The indeed therefore soldiers , according to that having been commanded them , having taken the Paul , they led through the night into the Antipatris . * On the and morrow having left the horsemen to go with him , they returned to the castle . * Who having come into the Caesarea , and having delivered the letter to the governor , presented and the Paul to him . * Having read and , and having asked from what province he is , and having understood that from Cilicia ; * I will fully hear thee , he said , when also the accusers of thee may arrive . He commanded and him in the judgment –hall of the Herod to be kept .

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