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"The Jews," he replied, "have agreed to request you to bring Paul down to the Sanhedrin to-morrow for the purpose of making yourself more accurately acquainted with the case.
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I beg you not to comply; for more than forty men among them are lying in wait for him, who have solemnly vowed that they will neither eat nor drink till they have assassinated him; and even now they are ready, in anticipation of receiving that promise of you.
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So the Tribune sent the youth home, cautioning him. "Do not let any one know that you have given me this information," he said.
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Then, calling to him two of the Captains, he gave his orders. "Get ready two hundred men," he said, "to march to Caesarea, with seventy cavalry and two hundred light infantry, starting at nine o'clock to-night."
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He further told them to provide horses to mount Paul on, so as to bring him safely to Felix the Governor.
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He also wrote a letter of which these were the contents:
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"Claudius Lysias to his Excellency, Felix the Governor: all good wishes.
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This man Paul had been seized by the Jews, and they were on the point of killing him, when I came upon them with the troops and rescued him, for I had been informed that he was a Roman citizen.
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And, wishing to know with certainty the offense of which they were accusing him, I brought him down into their Sanhedrin,
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and I discovered that the charge had to do with questions of their Law, but that he was accused of nothing for which he deserves death or imprisonment.
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But now that I have received information of an intended attack upon him, I immediately send him to you, directing his accusers also to state before you the case they have against him."