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Acts 23:22
So the commanding officer let the young man go, charging him, “Tell no one that you have revealed these things to me.”
Acts 23:22 · World English Bible
Acts 23:22 in other translations
So the chief captain then let the young man depart, and charged him, See thou tell no man that thou hast shewed these things to me.
So the commander dismissed the young man and instructed him, “Do not tell anyone that you have reported this to me.”
So the commanding officer let the young man go, charging him, "Tell no one that you have revealed these things to me."
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In context
19 The commanding officer took him by the hand, and going aside, asked him privately, “What is it that you have to tell me?”
20 He said, “The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though intending to inquire somewhat more accurately concerning him.
21 Therefore 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.”
22 So the commanding officer let the young man go, charging him, “Tell no one that you have revealed these things to me.”
23 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.”
24 He asked them to provide mounts, that they might set Paul on one, and bring him safely to Felix the governor.
25 He wrote a letter like this:
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