Acts 23:30
And when it was told me how that the Jews laid wait for the man, I sent straightway to thee, and gave commandment to his accusers also to say before thee what they had against him. Farewell. And when it was told me how that the Jews laid wait for the man, I sent straightway to thee, and gave commandment to his accusers also to say before thee what they had against him. Farewell.
When word came that the Jews were lying in wait for the man with a plot to kill him, Claudius Lysias sent Paul straightway to Felix at Caesarea without delay. In the same dispatch he gave commandment to Paul's accusers also to say before the governor what they had against him, directing them to present their case and charges there rather than in Jerusalem. The removal was carried out in secret by night, and by that protected transfer Paul was kept safe while Lysias was relieved of the danger and responsibility of holding him longer amid murderous enemies.
The letter bore testimony concerning Paul's conduct that agreed with Paul's own earnest and sincere statement of the facts. It carried weight of conviction, and together with Paul's plain defense it enabled Felix to understand more clearly the motives by which the Jews were governed in attempting to convict Paul of sedition and treasonable conduct. It set the charges before him as unproved and Paul as innocent, so that Felix should not gratify the Jews by unjustly condemning a Roman citizen or delivering him up to be put to death without a fair trial.