Acts 24:7 Cross References - MKJV

⁷ But the chiliarch Lysias came with much force, taking him away out of our hands,

¹⁶ For they do not sleep, except when they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away unless they cause some to fall.

³¹ And as they were seeking to kill him, the news came to the chiliarch of the cohort, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar. ³² He immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them. And seeing the chiliarch and the soldiers, they quit beating Paul. ³³ Then going near, the chiliarch laid hold on him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains. And he demanded who he was and what he had done.

³⁵ And when he came on the stairs, it happened that he was carried by the soldiers, because of the violence of the crowd.

¹⁰ And dissension arising, the chiliarch, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and to take him from among them by force, and to bring him into the fortress.

²³ And he called two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen, at the third hour of the night. ²⁴ And provide animals, so that they may set Paul on them and bring him to Felix the governor. ²⁵ And he wrote a letter in this way: ²⁶ Claudius Lysias, to the most excellent governor Felix, greetings. ²⁷ This man was taken by the Jews and would have been killed by them. Then I came with an army and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman. ²⁸ And being minded to know the charge for which they accused him, I brought him down to their sanhedrin; ²⁹ whom I found be accused of questions of their law, and having no charge worthy of death or of bonds. ³⁰ And it being revealed to me that a plot against the man was about to be executed by the Jews, I immediately sent him to you, commanding his accusers also to say before you what they had against him. Farewell. ³¹ Then, indeed, taking up Paul, as it was commanded them, the soldiers brought him by night to Antipatris. ³² And on the next day they left the horsemen to go with him and returned to the fortress.