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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."
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So, in obedience to their orders, the soldiers took Paul and brought him by night as far as Antipatris.
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The next day the infantry returned to the barracks, leaving the cavalry to proceed with him;
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and, the cavalry having reached Caesarea and delivered the letter to the Governor, they brought Paul also to him.
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Felix, after reading the letter, inquired from what province he was; and being told "from Cilicia,"
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he said, "I will hear all you have to say, when your accusers also have come." And he ordered him to be detained in custody in Herod's Palace.