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Acts 23:24
And provide beasts, that they may set Paul on and bring him safe to Felix the governor.
Acts 23:24 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
Acts 23:24 in other translations
And provide them beasts, that they may set Paul on, and bring him safe unto Felix the governor.
Provide mounts for Paul to take him safely to Governor Felix.”
He asked them to provide mounts, that they might set Paul on one, and bring him safely to Felix the governor.
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In context
21 But do not thou give credit to them: for there lie in wait for him more than forty men of them, who have bound themselves by oath neither to eat nor to drink, till they have killed him. And they are now ready, looking for a promise from thee.
22 The tribune therefore dismissed the young man, charging him that he should tell no man that he had made known these things unto him.
23 Then having called two centurions, he said to them: Make ready two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea: and seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen, for the third hour of the night.
24 And provide beasts, that they may set Paul on and bring him safe to Felix the governor.
25 (For he feared lest perhaps the Jews might take him away by force and kill him: and he should afterwards be slandered, as if he was to take money.) And he wrote a letter after this manner:
26 Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor, Felix, greeting:
27 This man, being taken by the Jews and ready to be killed by them, I rescued, coming in with an army, understanding that he is a Roman.
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