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Acts 23:23

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He called to himself two of the centurions, and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen, and two hundred men armed with spears, at the third hour of the night.”

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Acts 23:23 in other translations

And he called unto him two of the centurions, and said, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go as far as Cæsarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night:

Acts 23:23 · American Standard Version

Acts 23:23 in context

  1. 21Therefore don’t yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse to neither eat nor drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you.”
  2. 22So the commanding officer let the young man go, charging him, “Tell no one that you have revealed these things to me.”
  3. 23He called to himself two of the centurions, and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen, and two hundred men armed with spears, at the third hour of the night.”
  4. 24He asked them to provide animals, that they might set Paul on one, and bring him safely to Felix the governor.
  5. 25He wrote a letter like this: