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But do not believe them, for more than forty of them lie in wait
to ambush him, who have vowed under a curse that they will neither eat nor drink until they have killed him, and now they are ready, looking for a promise from thee.
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So the tribunal
then let the young man depart and charged
him, See thou tell no one that thou hast showed 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 seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen, at the third hour of the night
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and provide
them beasts that they may set Paul on and bring
him safe unto Felix the governor.
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And he wrote a letter after this manner:
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Claudius Lysias unto the most excellent governor Felix
sends greeting.
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This man was taken of the Jews and should have been killed by them; then I came with an army and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman.
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And when I desired to know the cause of why they accused him, I brought him forth into their council,
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whom I found 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 me how the Jews lay
in wait to
ambush the man, I sent straightway 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.