Acts 23:11-24

Then, on the following night, the Lord stood near him and said: "Be constant. For just as you have testified about me in Jerusalem, so also it is necessary for you to testify at Rome." And when daylight arrived, some of the Jews gathered together and bound themselves with an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul. Now there were more than forty men who had taken this oath together. And they approached the leaders of the priests, and the elders, and they said: "We have sworn ourselves by an oath, so that we will taste nothing, until we have killed Paul. Therefore, with the council, you should now give notice to the tribune, so that he may bring him to you, as if you intended to determine something else about him. But before he approaches, we have made preparations to put him to death." But when Paul's sister's son had heard of this, about their treachery, he went and entered into the fortress, and he reported it to Paul. And Paul, calling to him one of the centurions, said: "Lead this young man to the tribune. For he has something to tell him." And indeed, he took him and led him to the tribune, and he said, "Paul, the prisoner, asked me to lead this young man to you, since he has something to say to you." Then the tribune, taking him by the hand, withdrew with him by themselves, and he asked him: "What is it that you have to tell me?" Then he said: "The Jews have met to ask you to bring Paul tomorrow to the council, as if they intended to question him about something else. But truly, you should not believe them, for they would ambush him with more than forty men from among them, who have bound themselves by an oath neither to eat, nor to drink, until they have put him to death. And they are now prepared, hoping for an affirmation from you." And then the tribune dismissed the young man, instructing him not to tell anyone that he had made known these things to him. Then, having called two centurions, he said to them: "Prepare two hundred soldiers, so that they may go as far as Caesarea, and seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen, for the third hour of the night. And prepare beasts of burden to carry Paul, so that they may lead him safely to Felix, the governor."