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The chief captain, then, indeed, let the young man go, having charged [him] to tell no one, `that these things thou didst shew unto me;'
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and having called near a certain two of the centurions, he said, `Make ready soldiers two hundred, that they may go on unto Caesarea, and horsemen seventy, and spearmen two hundred, from the third hour of the night;
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beasts also provide, that, having set Paul on, they may bring him safe unto Felix the governor;'
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he having written a letter after this description:
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`Claudius Lysias, to the most noble governor Felix, hail:
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This man having been taken by the Jews, and being about to be killed by them -- having come with the soldiery, I rescued him, having learned that he is a Roman;
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and, intending to know the cause for which they were accusing him, I brought him down to their sanhedrim,
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whom I found accused concerning questions of their law, and having no accusation worthy of death or bonds;
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and a plot having been intimated to me against this man -- about to be of the Jews -- at once I sent unto thee, having given command also to the accusers to say the things against him before thee; be strong.'
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Then, indeed, the soldiers according to that directed them, having taken up Paul, brought him through the night to Antipatris,
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and on the morrow, having suffered the horsemen to go on with him, they returned to the castle;