Acts 23:33

33 And they, when they came to Caesarea, gave the letter to the ruler, and took Paul before him.

Acts 23:33 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 23:33

Who, when they came to Caesarea
The seventy horsemen:

and delivered the epistle to the governor;
to Felix, governor of Judea, who was now at Caesarea; namely, the letter which Claudius Lysias, the chief captain, sent to him; the form and contents of which are before given:

these presented Paul also before him;
concerning whom, and whose affairs, the letter was.

Acts 23:33 In-Context

31 So the armed men, as they were ordered, took Paul and came by night to Antipatris.
32 But on the day after, they sent the horsemen on with him, and went back to their place:
33 And they, when they came to Caesarea, gave the letter to the ruler, and took Paul before him.
34 And after reading it, he said, What part of the country do you come from? And, hearing that he was from Cilicia,
35 I will give hearing to your cause, he said, when those who are against you have come. And he gave orders for him to be kept in Herod's Praetorium.
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