023:025 He also wrote a letter of which these were the contents:
023:026 "Claudius Lysias to his Excellency, Felix the Governor: all good wishes.
023:027 This man Paul had been seized by the Jews, and they were on the point of killing him, when I came upon them with the troops and rescued him, for I had been informed that he was a Roman citizen.
023:028 And, wishing to know with certainty the offense of which they were accusing him, I brought him down into their Sanhedrin,
023:029 and I discovered that the charge had to do with questions
of their Law, but that he was accused of nothing for which
he deserves death or imprisonment.
023:030 But now that I have received information of an intended attack
upon him, I immediately send him to you, directing his accusers
also to state before you the case they have against him."
023:031 So, in obedience to their orders, the soldiers took Paul
and brought him by night as far as Antipatris.
023:032 The next day the infantry returned to the barracks,
leaving the cavalry to proceed with him;
023:033 and, the cavalry having reached Caesarea and delivered the letter
to the Governor, they brought Paul also to him.
023:034 Felix, after reading the letter, inquired from what province he was;
and being told "from Cilicia,"