Then the commander called two officers and said, “I need some men to go to Caesarea. Get two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen, and two hundred men with spears ready to leave at nine o’clock tonight.
When the horsemen came to Caesarea and gave the letter to the governor, they turned Paul over to him.
But Philip appeared in a city called Azotus and preached the Good News in all the towns on the way from Azotus to Caesarea.
Those servants will be blessed when he comes in and finds them still waiting, even if it is midnight or later.
Between three and six o’clock in the morning, Jesus came to them, walking on the water.
The commander sent the young man away, ordering him, “Don’t tell anyone that you have told me about their plan.”
The next day the horsemen went with Paul to Caesarea, but the other soldiers went back to the army building in Jerusalem.
So the soldiers did what they were told and took Paul and brought him to the city of Antipatris that night.
But the officer Lysias came and used much force to take him from us.