Acts 23:26-35

26 Claudius Lysias, To the most excellent governor Felix: Greetings.

27 When this man had been seized by the Jews and was about to be killed by them, I arrived with my troops and rescued him because I learned that he is a Roman citizen.

28 Wanting to know the charge for which they were accusing him, I brought him down before their Sanhedrin.

29 I found out that the accusations were about disputed matters in their law, and that there was no charge that merited death or chains.

30 When I was informed that there was a plot against the man,^[a] I sent him to you right away. I also ordered his accusers to state their case against him in your presence.^[b]

31 Therefore, during the night, the soldiers took Paul and brought him to Antipatris as they were ordered.

32 The next day, they returned to the barracks, allowing the cavalry to go on with him.

33 When these men entered Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him.

34 After he^[c] read it, he asked what province he was from. So when he learned he was from Cilicia,

35 he said, "I will give you a hearing whenever your accusers get here too." And he ordered that he be kept under guard in Herod's palace.^[d]

Footnotes

• [a] Other mss add by the Jews
• [b] Other mss add Farewell
• [c] Other mss read the governor
• [d] Lit praetorium, a Lat word that can also refer to a military headquarters, to the governor's palace, or to the emperor's imperial guard