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But folowe not their mindes: for ther lyein wayte for him of the moo then .xl. men which have boude the selves wt a vowe that they will nether eate ner drinke till they have killed him. And now are they redy and loke for thy promes
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The vpper captayne let ye yoge man departe and charged: se thou tell it out to no man that thou hast shewed these thinges to me.
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And he called vnto him two vnder captaynes sayinge: make redy two hondred soudiers to goo to Cesarea and horsmen threscore and ten and speare men two houndred at the thyrde houre of the nyght.
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And delyvre them beastes that they maye put Paul on and bringe him safe vnto Felix the hye debite
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and wrote a letter in this maner.
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Claudius Lisias vnto ye most mighty rular Felix sendeth gretinges.
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This man was take of the Iewes and shuld have bene killed of them. Then cam I with soudiers and rescued him and perceaved that he was a Romayne.
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And when I wolde have knowen the cause wherfore they accused him I brought him forth into their cousell.
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There perceaved I yt he was accused of questios of their lawe: but was not giltye of eny thinge worthy of deeth or of bondes.
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Afterwarde when it was shewed me how that ye Iewes layde wayte for ye man I sent him strayght waye to the and gave commaundmet to his accusars yf they had ought agaynst him to tell it vnto ye: fare well.
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Then ye soudiers as it was comaunded the toke Paul and brought him by nyght to Antipatras.