Acts 21:31-33
21:31 While they were trying
to kill him, a report
was sent up
to the commanding officer
of the cohort
that all Jerusalem was in confusion.
21:32 He
immediately took
soldiers and centurions
and ran down to the crowd.
When they saw
the commanding officer
and the soldiers, they stopped beating
Paul.
21:33 Then the commanding officer
came up and arrested
him and ordered him to be tied up with two chains;
he
then asked who he was and what
he had done.
Acts 23:23-32
23:23 Then
he summoned
two of the centurions
and said, “Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea
along with seventy horsemen
and two hundred spearmen
by
nine o’clock tonight,
23:24 and provide mounts for Paul to ride
so that he may be brought safely to Felix
the governor.”
23:25 He wrote
a letter that went like this:
23:26 Claudius Lysias to His Excellency Governor Felix, greetings.
23:27 This man was seized by the Jews and they were about to kill him, when I came up with the detachment and rescued him, because I had learned that he was a Roman citizen.
23:28 Since I wanted to know what charge they were accusing him of, I brought him down to their council.
23:29 I found he was accused with reference to controversial questions about their law, but no charge against him deserved death or imprisonment.
23:30 When I was informed there would be a plot against this man, I sent him to you at once, also ordering his accusers to state their charges against him before you.
23:31 So the soldiers, in accordance with their orders, took Paul and brought him to Antipatris during the night.
23:32 The next day they let the horsemen go on with him, and they returned to the barracks.
Proverbs 4:16
4:16 For they cannot sleep unless they cause harm;
they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.