Acts 23:23

And calling to him two certain persons of the centurions, he said, Get ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen, at the third hour of the night;

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

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

22Hereupon the tribune dismissed the youth, with an injunction, not to mention it to any body that thou hast discovered these things to me.

24and provide beasts, that setting Paul thereon, you may convey him safely to Felix the governor.

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Cross References

Luke 12:38And if he come in the second watch, or in the third watch, and find them so watchful, blessed are those servants.

Acts 23:31Hereupon then the soldiers, as it was commanded them, took Paul, and brought him by night unto Antipatris.

Acts 24:7But Lysias the tribune came, and with great violence took him 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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