25. He wrote a letter that had this form:
26. Claudius Lysias. To his excellency Governor Felix. Greetings!
27. This man was seized by the Jews and was about to be killed by them when I came upon them with the detachment and rescued him, because I learned that he was a Roman citizen.
28. And because I wanted to know the charge for which they were accusing him, I brought him down to their Sanhedrin.
29. I found he was accused concerning controversial questions of their law, but having no charge deserving death or imprisonment.
30. And when it was made known to me there would be a plot against the man, I sent him to you immediately, also ordering his accusers to speak against him before you.
31. Therefore the soldiers, in accordance with their orders, took Paul and brought him to Antipatris during the night.