Now therefore do ye, with the council, signify to the chief
captain that he bring him down to you, as though ye would ascertain
more exactly the matters concerning him; and we, before he comes near,
are ready to kill him.

(16)And the son of Paul's sister, hearing of their lying in wait, went
and entered into the castle, and told Paul. (17)Then Paul called one
of the centurions to him, and said: Bring this young man to the chief
captain; for he has something to tell him. (18)So he took him, and
brought him to the chief captain, and said: Paul, the prisoner, called
me to him, and asked me to bring this young man to thee, as he has
something to say to thee.

(19)Then the chief captain took him by the hand, and went aside
privately, and asked: What is that thou hast to tell me? (20)And he
said: The Jews agreed to desire thee, that thou wouldst bring down
Paul to-morrow into the council, as though they would inquire somewhat
more exactly concerning him. (21)But do not thou yield to them; for of
them more than forty men are lying in wait for him, who bound
themselves with an oath, neither to eat nor to drink till they have
killed him; and now they are ready, looking for the promise from thee.
(22)The chief captain therefore dismissed the young man, having
charged him to say to no one, that thou didst show these things to me.
(23)And calling to him two or three of the centurions, he said: Make
ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and seventy horsemen,
two hundred spearmen, at the third hour of the night; (24)and let them
provide beasts, that they may set Paul thereon, and bring him safe to
Felix the governor.

(25)And he wrote a letter after this manner: (26)Claudius Lysias to
the most excellent governor Felix, sends greeting. (27)This man was
taken by the Jews, and was about to be killed by them; but I came upon
them with the soldiery, and rescued him, having learned that he is a
Roman. (28)And wishing to know the crime for which they were accusing
him, I brought him down into their council; (29)whom I found to be
accused concerning questions of their law, but having nothing laid to
his charge worthy of death or of bonds. (30)And being informed that a
plot was about to be laid against the man, I sent straightway to thee,
having also commanded the accusers to say before thee what they had
against him. Farewell.

(31)The soldiers, therefore, as was commanded them, took up Paul, and
brought him by night to Antipat