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So the chief captain then let the young man depart and charged him, "See thou tell no man that thou hast revealed these things to me."
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And he called unto him two centurions, saying, "Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and threescore and ten horsemen, and two hundred spearmen, at the third hour of the night;
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and provide them with beasts that they may set Paul on, and bring him safe unto Felix the governor."
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And he wrote a letter in this manner:
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"Claudius Lysias, unto the most excellent governor Felix, sendeth greeting:
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This man was taken by the Jews, and was about to be killed by them. Then came I with an army and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman.
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And desiring to know the cause whereof they accused him, I brought him forth into their council.
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I perceived him to be accused about questions of their law, but there was nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.
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And when it was told me how the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him straightway to thee, and gave a command to his accusers also to speak before thee what they have against him. Farewell."
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Then the soldiers took Paul, as it was commanded them, and brought him by night to Antipatris.
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On the morrow they left the horsemen to go with him and returned to the castle,