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And provide [for them] beasts, that they may set Paul on, and bring [him] safe to Felix the governor.
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And he wrote a letter after this manner:
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Claudius Lysias, to the most excellent governor Felix, [sendeth] greeting.
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This man was taken by the Jews, and would have been killed by them: then I came with a body of soldiers, and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman.
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And when I would have known the cause for which they accused him, I brought him forth into their council:
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Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death, or of bonds.
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And when it was told to me that the Jews laid wait for the man, I sent forthwith to thee, and gave commandment to his accusers also, to say before thee what [they had] against him. Farewell.
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Then the soldiers, as it was commanded them, took Paul, 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:
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Who, when they came to Cesarea, and delivered the epistle to the governor, presented Paul also before him.
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And when the governor had read [the letter], he asked of what province he was. And when he understood that [he was] of Cilicia,