Acts 23:11-24

The following night the Lord stood by him and said, “Take courage, Paul. For as you have testified about Me in Jerusalem, so you must also testify at Rome.” At daybreak some of the Jews conspired under oath, saying they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul. There were more than forty who had conspired. They went to the chief priests and elders and said, “We have bound ourselves under oath not to eat until we have killed Paul. So now, with the Sanhedrin, tell the commander to bring him down to you tomorrow, pretending to inquire further concerning him. We are ready to kill him before he arrives.” But when the son of Paul’s sister heard of the treachery, he went and entered the barracks and told Paul. Then Paul called one of the centurions over and said, “Take this young man to the commander, for he has something to tell him.” So he took him to the commander and said, “Paul the prisoner sent for me and asked me to bring you this young man who has something to tell you.” Then the commander took him by the hand, went aside privately, and asked him, “What is it you have to tell me?” The boy said, “The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down tomorrow to the Sanhedrin, pretending to inquire further concerning him. Do not trust them. More than forty men, who have bound themselves with an oath to neither eat nor drink until they have killed him, are waiting for him. And now they are ready, waiting for your promise.” The commander dismissed the young man and ordered him, “Tell no one that you have reported these things to me.” Then he summoned two centurions and said, “Prepare two hundred infantrymen, seventy mounted soldiers, and two hundred light infantrymen with spears to go to Caes­area at the third hour of the night. And provide mounts so Paul may ride and take him safely to Felix the governor.”