21. Do not thou then be persuaded by them, for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, who have put themselves under a curse neither to eat nor drink till they kill him; and now they are ready waiting the promise from thee.
22. The chiliarch then dismissed the youth, commanding him, Utter to no one that thou hast represented these things to me.
23. And having called to him certain two of the centurions, he said, Prepare two hundred soldiers that they may go as far as Caesarea, and seventy horsemen, and two hundred light-armed footmen, for the third hour of the night.
24. And he ordered them to provide beasts, that they might set Paul on them and carry him safe through to Felix the governor,
25. having written a letter, couched in this form: