nto the things concerning
him: but we, ere he come nigh, are ready to kill him.

(16)Now Paul's sister's son having heard of their lying in wait, came,
and entering into the fortress told Paul. (17)Then Paul calling to him
one of the centurions, said, Carry this young man to the tribune: for
he hath something to communicate to him. (18)Then he took him, and
brought him to the tribune, and said, The prisoner Paul calling me to
him, entreated me to bring this young man to thee, having something to
say to thee. (19)Hereupon the tribune taking him by the hand, and
leading him aside, inquired, What is it that thou hast to communicate
to me? (20)And he said, The Jews have agreed together to entreat thee
that to-morrow thou wouldest bring down Paul into the sanhedrim, as
about to make some more accurate inquiry concerning him. (21)But do not
thou consent to them: for more than forty men of them are lying in wait
for him, who have bound themselves under an anathema, neither to eat
nor drink till they have killed him: and now they are in readiness,
waiting only to procure the promise from thee.

(22)Hereupon the tribune dismissed the youth, with an injunction, not
to mention it to any body that thou hast discovered these things to me.
(23)And calling to him two certain persons of the centurions, he said,
Get ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and seventy horsemen,
and two hundred spearmen, at the third hour of the night; (24)and
provide beasts, that setting Paul thereon, you may convey him safely to
Felix the governor.

(25)And he wrote a letter containing this form of words:

(26)Claudius Lysias to his excellence the governor Felix, greeting.

(27)This person had been seized by the Jews, and was ready to be slain
by them: but coming on them with the guard, I rescued him out of their
hands, having understood that he was a Roman citizen. (28)And desirous
of knowing the crime of which they accused him, I brought him down into
their sanhedrim (29)and found him accused of some disputed points of
their law; but to have no charge laid against him worthy of death or of
bonds. (30)But it being discovered to me that a design was forming
against the man's _life_ by the Jews, immediately I sent him to thee,
commanding his accusers also to produce what they have against him
before thee. Farewel.

(31)Hereupon then the soldiers, as it was commanded them, took Paul,
and brought him by night unto Antipatris. (32)And on the mor