“He asked them to provide mounts, that they might set Paul on one, and bring him safely to Felix the governor.”
Acts 23:24 (WEB)
Context Reading
22So the commanding officer let the young man go, charging him, “Tell no one that you have revealed these things to me.” 23He called to himself two of the centurions, and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen and two hundred men armed with spears, at the third hour of the night.” 24He asked them to provide mounts, that they might set Paul on one, and bring him safely to Felix the governor. 25He wrote a letter like this: 26“Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor Felix: Greetings.