Acts 23:24 CPDV

²²  And then the tribune dismissed the young man, instructing him not to tell anyone that he had made known these things to him.

²³  Then, having called two centurions, he said to them: 'Prepare two hundred soldiers, so that they may go as far as Caesarea, and seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen, for the third hour of the night.

²⁴  And prepare beasts of burden to carry Paul, so that they may lead him safely to Felix, the governor.'

²⁵  For he was afraid, lest perhaps the Jews might seize him and kill him, and that afterwards he would be falsely accused, as if he had accepted a bribe. And so he wrote a letter containing the following:

²⁶  'Claudius Lysias, to the most excellent governor, Felix: greetings.