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23:1  Looking intently at · the council, · Paul said, “My brothers, I have lived in all good conscience before God up to this · day.”
23:2  At that the · high priest Ananias ordered those standing near him to strike him on the mouth.
23:3  Then · Paul said to him, “God is about to strike you, · you whitewashed wall! Do you indeed sit judging me according to the law yet contrary to the law order me to be struck?”
23:4  Those · standing near him said, “Dare you insult God’s · high priest?” ·
23:5  And Paul said, · “I did not realize, brothers, that he was high priest; for it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil about the ruler of your people.’”
23:6  Now when Paul perceived · that · one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “My brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. It is regarding my hope · of a resurrection for the dead that I am on trial.”
23:7  When he said this, · an argument broke out between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.
23:8  (For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel nor spirit, but the Pharisees confess · them all.)
23:9  Then there arose a great uproar, and certain of the scribes of the party of the Pharisees stood up and protested vigorously, saying, “We find nothing evil in · this man. What if · a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”
23:10  And when the argument became violent, the commanding officer, afraid that Paul would be torn apart · by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him away from among them by force and bring him into the barracks.
23:11  The · following night the Lord stood by him and said, “Take courage, for as you have testified to the facts about me in Jerusalem, so must you also testify in Rome.”
23:12  When it was · day, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves by an oath saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed · Paul.
23:13  There were · more than forty who made this · conspiracy.
23:14  These went to the chief priests and · elders and said, “We have bound ourselves by an oath to taste no food until we have killed · Paul.
23:15  So now you and the council give notice to the commanding officer to bring him down to you, as though you were going to examine his case more accurately; and we will be ready to kill him before · he gets there.” ·
23:16  But when the son of Paul’s sister heard about the ambush, he went and entered the barracks and reported it to Paul.
23:17  Then Paul called · one of the centurions and said, “Take · this young man to the commanding officer, for he has something to report to him.”
23:18  So he took him and brought him to the commanding officer and said, “The prisoner Paul called me and asked me to bring this · young man to you, as he has something to say to you.”
23:19  The commanding officer took him by · the hand, · drew him aside and asked, “What is it that you have to report to me?”
23:20  And he said, “The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down tomorrow · to the council, as though the case against him was going to be examined more closely.
23:21  But you should not be persuaded by them, for more than forty of their men are lying in wait for him and have bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink until they kill him. And now they are ready, awaiting · your consent.”
23:22  So the commanding officer dismissed the young man, charging him to tell no one that you have reported these things to me.”
23:23  Then he called two of the centurions and said, “Get ready by the third hour of the night two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen to go as far as Caesarea.” · ·
23:24  And he told them to provide mounts so that having put · Paul on them they might bring him safely to Felix the governor.
23:25  And he wrote a letter having · this form:
23:26  “Claudius Lysias, to the most excellent governor, Felix, greetings.
23:27  · This man was seized by the Jews and was about to be killed by them, when I came upon him and, with the soldiers, rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman citizen.
23:28  And wanting to know the charge for which they were accusing him, I brought him down to · their council.
23:29  I found him accused in regard to questions of their law, but with no charge deserving death or imprisonment.
23:30  And when it was disclosed to me that there would be a plot against the man, I sent him to you at once, ordering his accusers also to speak · against him to you.”
23:31  So the soldiers, according to the directions given to them, took · Paul and brought him by night to · Antipatris.
23:32  The · next day they let the horsemen go on with him, and they returned to the barracks.
23:33  When the horsemen arrived in · Caesarea, · they delivered the letter to the governor and turned over · Paul to him.
23:34  When he had read the letter, · · he asked from what province he was. · Learning that he was from Cilicia,
23:35  he said, “I will give you a hearing when · · your accusers arrive.” Then he commanded that Paul be guarded in · Herod’s headquarters. ·