So the soldiers followed their orders and brought Paul by night to Antipatris.
Malice that cannot gain its end by tumult or law will turn to the knife. Forty men bound themselves by oath to murder Paul, their hearts filled with hatred because he preached to Gentiles. Satan had stirred them in the night; by daylight they were ready to kill. But Christ appeared to Paul in darkness to shield him, and God was awake before His enemies rose.
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Commenting on Acts 23:12-35
The seventy horsemen reached Caesarea and delivered both Lysias's letter to the governor Felix and Paul himself into his hands. Everything was now laid before the magistrate, the charges, the prisoner, and the written account of the whole affair.
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Antipatris, once called Cafar-Saba, stands about thirty-five miles from Jerusalem and twenty-six from Caesarea. Herod the Great renamed it in honor of his father Antipater, and it sits in a fine plain watered by many springs.
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