Acts 23:25
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22 So the chief captain let the young man go, saying to him, Do not say to anyone that you have given me word of these things.
23 And he sent for two captains and said, Make ready two hundred men, with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen, to go to Caesarea, at the third hour of the night:
24 And get beasts so that they may put Paul on them, and take him safely to Felix, the ruler.
25 And he sent a letter in these words:
26 Claudius Lysias, to the most noble ruler, Felix, peace be with you.
27 This man was taken by the Jews, and was about to be put to death by them, when I came on them with the army and took him out of danger, having knowledge that he was a Roman.
28 And, desiring to get at the reason for their attack on him, I took him down to their Sanhedrin: