21. You therefore do not be persuaded by them, because more than forty men of their number are lying in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have done away with him. And now they are ready, waiting for you to agree.”
22. So the military tribune sent the young man away, directing him, “Tell no one that you have revealed these things to me.”
23. And he summoned two of the centurions and said, “Make ready from the third hour of the night two hundred soldiers and seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen, in order that they may proceed as far as Caesarea.
24. And provide mounts so that they can put Paul on them and bring him safely to Felix the governor.”
25. He wrote a letter that had this form:
26. Claudius Lysias. To his excellency Governor Felix. Greetings!