Bible in Basic English
"So the chief captain let the young man go, saying to him, Do not say to anyone that you have given me word of these things."
— Acts 23:22, Bible in Basic English
“So the commanding officer let the young man go, charging him, "Tell no one that you have revealed these things to me."”
“The tribune therefore dismissed the young man, charging him that he should tell no man that he had made known these things unto him.”
“So the chief captain then let the young man depart, and charged him, See thou tell no man that thou hast shewed these things to me.”
And the chief took him by the hand and, going on one side, said to him privately, What is it you have to say to me?
And he said, The Jews are in agreement together to make a request to you for Paul to be taken, on the day after this, into the Sanhedrin, to be questioned in greater detail.
But do not give way to them, for more than forty of them are waiting for him, having taken an oath not to take food or drink till they have put him to death: and now they are ready, waiting for your order.
So the chief captain let the young man go, saying to him, Do not say to anyone that you have given me word of these things.
And he sent for two captains and said, Make ready two hundred men, with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen, to go to Caesarea, at the third hour of the night:
And get beasts so that they may put Paul on them, and take him safely to Felix, the ruler.
And he sent a letter in these words: