¹⁷ And Paul sent for a captain and said, Take this young man to your chief, for he has news for him.

³ The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble.

⁸ And the captain in answer said, Lord, I am not good enough for you to come under my roof; but only say the word, and my servant will be made well.

⁹ Because I myself am a man under authority, having under me fighting men; and I say to this one, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does it.

¹⁶ See, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Be then as wise as snakes, and as gentle as doves.

²⁶ And hearing this, the man went to the chief captain and gave him an account of it, saying, What are you about to do? for this man is a Roman.

²³ 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: