Acts 23:23-35

New American Standard Bible

Paul Moved to Caesarea

²³And he called to him two of the centurions and said, “Get two hundred soldiers ready by ^[a]the third hour of the night to proceed to ^(A)Caesarea, ^[b]with seventy horsemen and two hundred ^[c]spearmen.” ²⁴They were also to provide mounts to put Paul on and bring him safely to ^(B)Felix the governor. ²⁵And he wrote a letter ^[d]with the following content:

²⁶“Claudius Lysias, to the ^(C)most excellent governor Felix: ^(D)Greetings.

²⁷When this man was seized by the Jews and was about to be killed by them, ^(E)I came up to them with the troops and rescued him, ^(F)after learning that he was a Roman. ²⁸And ^(G)wanting to ascertain the basis for the charges they were bringing against him, I ^(H)brought him down to their ^[e]^(I)Council; ²⁹and I found that he was being accused regarding ^(J)questions in their Law, but ^[f]was ^(K)not charged with anything deserving death or ^[g]imprisonment.

³⁰When I was ^(L)informed that there would be ^(M)a plot against the man, I sent him to you at once, also instructing ^(N)his accusers to ^[h]bring charges against him before you.”

³¹So the soldiers, in accordance with their orders, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris. ³²But on the next day they let ^(O)the horsemen go on with him, and they returned to ^(P)the barracks. ³³When these horsemen had come to ^(Q)Caesarea and delivered the letter to ^(R)the governor, they also presented Paul to him. ³⁴Now when he had read it, he also asked from what ^(S)province Paul was, and when he learned that ^(T)he was from Cilicia, ³⁵he said, “I will give you a hearing when your ^(U)accusers arrive as well,” giving orders for ^[i]Paul to be ^(V)kept in Herod’s ^[j]Praetorium.