23And having called two of the centurions, he said, Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, together with seventy horsemen and two hundred slingers, from the third hour of the night.24They were also to have animals ready so that, after mounting them, they might bring Paul safely to Felix the ruler.25He wrote a letter containing this wording.26Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor Felix, greetings.27This man had been seized by the Jews and was about to be killed by them, but I intervened with the troops and rescued him after learning that he is a Roman citizen.28Wishing also to learn the charge on which they were accusing him, I brought him down into their council.29I found him accused concerning questions of their law, but having no accusation worthy of death or chains.30When a plot against the man was then disclosed to me, I immediately sent him to you and ordered his accusers to present their case before you.31So the soldiers, according to their orders, took Paul and brought him by night as far as Antipatris.32On the next day they allowed the horsemen to go on with him and returned to the barracks.33The horsemen entered Caesarea, delivered the letter to the governor, and presented Paul to him.34After reading the letter and asking from what province he came, and learning that he was from Cilicia,35I will give you a hearing, he said, when your accusers also arrive; and he ordered that he be kept in Herod's praetorium.