Acts:23:12-35

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* When it was day , some of the Jews banded together , and bound themselves under a curse , saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul . * There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy . * They came to the chief priests and the elders , and said , "We have bound ourselves under a great curse , to taste nothing until we have killed Paul . * Now therefore , you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow , as though you were going to judge his case more exactly . We are ready to kill him before he comes near ." * But Paul 's sister 's son heard of their lying in wait , and he came and entered into the barracks and told Paul . * Paul summoned one of the centurions , and said , "Bring this young man to the commanding officer , for he has something to tell him ." * So he took him , and brought him to the commanding officer , and said , "Paul , the prisoner , summoned me and asked me to bring this young man to you , who has something to tell you ." * The commanding officer took him by the hand , and going aside , asked him privately , "What is it that you have to tell me ?" * He said , "The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow , as though intending to inquire somewhat more accurately concerning him . * Therefore don 't yield to them , for more than forty men lie in wait for him , who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him . Now they are ready , looking for the promise from you ." * So the commanding officer let the young man go , charging him , "Tell no one that you have revealed these things to me ." * He called to himself two of the centurions , and said , "Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea , with seventy horsemen , and two hundred men armed with spears , at the third hour of the night {about strkjv @9:00 PM }." * He asked them to provide animals , that they might set Paul on one , and bring him safely to Felix the governor . * He wrote a letter like this : * "Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor Felix : Greetings . * "This man was seized by the Jews , and was about to be killed by them , when I came with the soldiers and rescued him , having learned that he was a Roman . * Desiring to know the cause why they accused him , I brought him down to their council . * I found him to be accused about questions of their law , but not to be charged with anything worthy of death or of imprisonment . * When I was told that the Jews lay in wait for the man , I sent him to you immediately , charging his accusers also to bring their accusations against him before you . Farewell ." * So the soldiers , carrying out their orders , took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris . * But on the next day they left the horsemen to go with him , and returned to the barracks . * When they came to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor , they also presented Paul to him . * When the governor had read it , he asked what province he was from . When he understood that he was from Cilicia , he said , * "I will hear you fully when your accusers also arrive ." He commanded that he be kept in Herod 's palace .

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