³¹ So the soldiers, carrying out their orders, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.

⁸ For I also am a man placed under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, 'Go!' and he goes; and to another, 'Come!' and he comes; and to my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."

²³ He called to himself two of the centurions, and said, "Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen, and two hundred men armed with spears, at the third hour of the night{about 9:00 PM}."

²⁴ He asked them to provide animals, that they might set Paul on one, and bring him safely to Felix the governor.

³ You therefore must endure hardship, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

⁴ No soldier on service entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.