Acts 23:23-27

And he called to him two of the centurions and said, “Get two hundred soldiers ready by the third hour of the night to proceed to Caesarea, with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen.”

They were also to provide mounts to put Paul on and bring him safely to Felix the governor.

And he wrote a letter with the following content:

“Claudius Lysias, to the most excellent governor Felix: Greetings.

When this man was seized by the Jews and was about to be killed by them, I came up to them with the troops and rescued him, after learning that he was a Roman.