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But do not thou give credit to them: for there lie in wait for him more than forty men of them, who have bound themselves by oath neither to eat nor to drink, till they have killed him. And they are now ready, looking for a promise from thee
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The tribune therefore dismissed the young man, charging him that he should tell no man that he had made known these things unto him.
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Then having called two centurions, he said to them: Make ready two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea: and seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen, for the third hour of the night.
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And provide beasts, that they may set Paul on and bring him safe to Felix the governor.
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(For he feared lest perhaps the Jews might take him away by force and kill him: and he should afterwards be slandered, as if he was to take money.) And he wrote a letter after this manner:
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Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor, Felix, greeting:
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This man, being taken by the Jews and ready to be killed by them, I rescued, coming in with an army, understanding that he is a Roman.
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And meaning to know the cause which they objected unto him, I brought him forth into their council.
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Whom I found to be accused concerning questions of their law; but having nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bands.
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And when I was told of ambushes that they had prepared for him, I sent him to thee, signifying also to his accusers to plead before thee. Farewell.
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Then the soldiers, according as it was commanded them, taking Paul, brought him by night to Antipatris.