Read Acts 23:12-35 (The Living Bible) on maBible, the Bible online. Other reference formats: Acts 23.12-35, Acts 23v12-35, Ac. 23:12-35. Then they went to the chief priests and elders and told them what they had done. “Ask the commander to bring Paul back to the Council again,” they requested. “Pre…
Other reference formats: Acts 23.12-35, Acts 23v12-35, Ac. 23:12-35.
14 Then they went to the chief priests and elders and told them what they had done.
15 “Ask the commander to bring Paul back to the Council again,” they requested. “Pretend you want to ask a few more questions. We will kill him on the way.”
16 But Paul’s nephew got wind of their plan and came to the armory and told Paul.
17 Paul called one of the officers and said, “Take this boy to the commander. He has something important to tell him.”
18 So the officer did, explaining, “Paul, the prisoner, called me over and asked me to bring this young man to you to tell you something.”
19 The commander took the boy by the hand, and leading him aside asked, “What is it you want to tell me, lad?”
20 “Tomorrow,” he told him, “the Jews are going to ask you to bring Paul before the Council again, pretending they want to get some more information.
21 But don’t do it! There are more than forty men hiding along the road ready to jump him and kill him. They have bound themselves under a curse to neither eat nor drink till he is dead. They are out there now, expecting you to agree to their request.”
22 “Don’t let a soul know you told me this,” the commander warned the boy as he left.
25 Then he wrote this letter to the governor:
26 “From: Claudius Lysias “To: His Excellency, Governor Felix. “Greetings!
27 “This man was seized by the Jews, and they were killing him when I sent the soldiers to rescue him, for I learned that he was a Roman citizen.
28 Then I took him to their Council to try to find out what he had done.
29 I soon discovered it was something about their Jewish beliefs, certainly nothing worthy of imprisonment or death.
30 But when I was informed of a plot to kill him, I decided to send him on to you and will tell his accusers to bring their charges before you.”
31 So that night, as ordered, the soldiers took Paul to Antipatris.
32 They returned to the armory the next morning, leaving him with the cavalry to take him on to Caesarea.
33 When they arrived in Caesarea, they presented Paul and the letter to the governor.
34 He read it and then asked Paul where he was from. “Cilicia,” Paul answered.
35 “I will hear your case fully when your accusers arrive,” the governor told him, and ordered him kept in the prison at King Herod’s palace.
Author: Luc · Written: ~ 65 et 80 ap. J.-C. · Reading time: ≈ 2h40 · Characters: Etienne, Barnabas, Philippe, Pierre, Paul, Corneille, Prisca (Priscille) et Aquilas, Lydie, Silas (Sylvain), Timothée, Jean Marc