20. And he said, The Jews have agreed together to make a request to thee, that thou mayest bring Paul down to-morrow into the council, as about to inquire something more precise concerning him.
21. Do not thou then be persuaded by them, for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, who have put themselves under a curse neither to eat nor drink till they kill him; and now they are ready waiting the promise from thee.
22. The chiliarch then dismissed the youth, commanding him, Utter to no one that thou hast represented these things to me.
23. And having called to him certain two of the centurions, he said, Prepare two hundred soldiers that they may go as far as Caesarea, and seventy horsemen, and two hundred light-armed footmen, for the third hour of the night.
24. And he ordered them to provide beasts, that they might set Paul on them and carry him safe through to Felix the governor,
25. having written a letter, couched in this form:
26. Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor Felix, greeting.
27. This man, having been taken by the Jews, and being about to be killed by them, I came up with the military and took out of their hands, having learned that he was a Roman.
28. And desiring to know the charge on which they accused him, I brought him down to their council;