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23:1  And Paul, having looked-intently at the Sanhedrin, said, “Men, brothers, I have conducted-myself  with all good conscience before God up to this day”.
23:2  And the high priest Ananias commanded the ones standing near him to strike his mouth.
23:3  Then Paul said to him, “God is going to strike you— whitewashed wall! Do You indeed sit there judging me according to the Law, and violating-the-Law, order that I be struck?”
23:4  And the ones standing near said, “Are you reviling the high priest of God?”
23:5  And Paul said, “I did not know, brothers, that he was high priest. For it has been written [in Ex 22:28] that ‘You shall not speak badly of a ruler of your people’”.
23:6  And Paul, having known that the one part of them was of Sadducees and the other of Pharisees, was crying-out in the Sanhedrin, “Men, brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. I am being judged concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead”.
23:7  And he having said this, a dispute between the Pharisees and Sadducees took place, and the assembly was divided.
23:8  For Sadducees say that there is not a resurrection, nor an angel, nor a spirit— but Pharisees confess all three.
23:9  And a great clamor took place. And having stood up, some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ part were battling, saying, “We are finding no evil in this man. And what if a spirit did speak to him, or an angel?”
23:10  And while a great dispute was taking place, the commander— having feared that Paul might be torn-to-pieces by them— ordered the troop, having gone down, to snatch him out of the midst of them and bring him to the barracks.
23:11  And on the following night, the Lord, having stood near him, said, “Take-courage. For as you solemnly-testified in Jerusalem as to the things concerning Me, so you must also testify in Rome”.
23:12  And having become day, the Jews, having held a gathering, bound themselves under-a-curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until which time they killed Paul.
23:13  Now there were more than forty having made this sworn-pact—
23:14  who, having gone to the chief priests and the elders, said, “With a curse, we bound ourselves under-a-curse to eat nothing until which time we kill Paul.
23:15  Now therefore, you, along with the Sanhedrin, notify the commander so that he may bring him down to you, as-though you are intending to determine the things concerning him more accurately. And we are prepared that we might kill him before he draws-near”.
23:16  But the son of the sister of Paul— having heard-of the ambush, having come and entered into the barracks— reported it to Paul.
23:17  And Paul, having summoned one of the centurions, said, “Lead this young-man away to the commander, for he has something to report to him”.
23:18  So indeed the one, having taken him along, led him to the commander. And he says, “Paul the prisoner, having summoned me, asked that I lead this young man to you— he having something to tell you”.
23:19  And the commander— having taken-hold-of his hand, and having withdrawn privately— was asking, “What is it that you have to report to me?”
23:20  And he said that “The Jews agreed to ask you so that tomorrow you might bring Paul down to the Sanhedrin, as-though intending to inquire something more accurately concerning him.
23:21  So don’t you be persuaded by them. For more than forty men from-among them are lying-in-wait-for him who bound themselves under-a-curse neither to eat nor drink until which time they kill him. And now they are prepared, waiting-for the promise from you”.
23:22  Then indeed the commander sent away the young-man, having commanded him to tell no one “that you revealed these things to me”.
23:23  And having summoned a certain two of the centurions, he said, “Prepare two-hundred soldiers and seventy horsemen and two-hundred spearmen so that they may proceed to Caesarea at the third hour of the night”;
23:24  and that they should provide mounts in order that having put-on Paul, they might bring him safely through to Felix the governor,
23:25  he having written a letter having this form:
23:26  “Claudius Lysias, to the most-excellent governor Felix: Greetings.
23:27  I rescued this man having been seized by the Jews and being about to be killed by them, having come-suddenly-upon them with the troop— having learned that he was a Roman.
23:28  And wanting to know the reason for which they were accusing him, I brought him down to their Sanhedrin—
23:29  whom I found being accused about issues of their Law, but having no accusation worthy of death or imprisonment.
23:30  And a plot having been disclosed to me that would be against the man, I sent him to you at once, having also ordered his accusers to speak the things against him before you”.
23:31  So indeed the soldiers, in accordance with the thing having been commanded them, having picked-up Paul, brought him during the night to Antipatris.
23:32  And on the next day, they returned to the barracks, having let the horsemen depart with him—
23:33  who, having entered into Caesarea, and having delivered the letter to the governor, presented Paul to him also.
23:34  And having read it, and having asked from what province he was, and having learned that he was from Cilicia,
23:35  he said, “I will give you a hearing whenever your accusers also arrive”— having ordered that he be guarded in the Praetorium of Herod.