Acts:23:23-35

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* And he called unto him two centurions , saying , Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea , and horsemen threescore and ten , and spearmen two hundred , at the third hour of the night ; * And provide them beasts , that they may set Paul on , and bring him safe unto Felix the governor . * And he wrote a letter after this manner : * Claudius Lysias unto the most excellent governor Felix sendeth greeting . * This man was taken of the Jews , and should have been killed of them : then came I with an army , and rescued him , having understood that he was a Roman . * And when I would have known the cause wherefore they accused him , I brought him forth into their council : * Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law , but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds . * And when it was told me how that the Jews laid wait for the man , I sent straightway to thee , and gave commandment to his accusers also to say before thee what they had against him . Farewell . * Then the soldiers , as it was commanded them , took Paul , and brought him by night to Antipatris . * On the morrow they left the horsemen to go with him , and returned to the castle : * Who , when they came to Caesarea , and delivered the epistle to the governor , presented Paul also before him . * And when the governor had read the letter , he asked of what province he was . And when he understood that he was of Cilicia ; * I will hear thee , said he , when thine accusers are also come . And he commanded him to be kept in Herod 's judgment hall .

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