Acts 23:23

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.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

And he called unto him two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night;

In Context

22The chiliarch then dismissed the youth, commanding [him], Utter to no one that thou hast represented these things to me.

24And [he ordered them] to provide beasts, that they might set Paul on them and carry [him] safe through to Felix the governor,

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Cross References

Luke 12:38And if he come in the second watch, and come in the third watch, and find [them] thus, blessed are those [bondmen].

Acts 23:31The soldiers therefore, according to what was ordered them, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris,

Acts 24:7but Lysias, the chiliarch, coming up, took [him] away with great force out of our hands,

Matthew Henry on Acts 23:13-35

A Conspiracy against Paul; Paul Sent to Felix. 12 And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. 13 And they were more than forty which had made this conspiracy. 14 And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul. 15 Now therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring… Read the whole commentary →

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