Acts 24:7 Cross References - TKJU

⁷ But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,

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

³¹ Now as they went about to kill him, news came to the chief captain of the soldiers, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar. ³² Who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them: And when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, they ceased beating Paul. ³³ Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and he demanded to know who he was, and what he had done.

³⁵ Now when he reached the stairs, it so happened that he had to be carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the people.

¹⁰ Moreover, when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul would have been pulled to pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.

²³ And he called two centurions to himself, saying, "Prepare two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen to go to Caesarea at the third hour of the night; ²⁴ and provide for them beasts, that they may set Paul upon, and bring him safe to Felix the governor." ²⁵ Then he wrote a letter in the following manner: 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 when I intended to know the cause for why they accused him, I brought him forth into their council: ²⁹ What I perceived was that he is accused over questions of their law, but had nothing charged against him worthy of death nor of chains. ³⁰ And when it was told to me how the Jews laid in wait for the man, I sent him immediately to you, and also gave commands to his accusers to speak before you what they had against him. Farewell. ³¹ Then the soldiers, as it was commanded to them, took Paul, and brought him by night to Antipatris. ³² On the next day, they left the horsemen to go on with him, and returned to the castle: