Antipatris was a city on the plain of Sharon, built by Herod the Great and named after his father Antipater. It lay on the road from Jerusalem to Caesarea Maritima. In Acts 23, Paul was taken by night from Jerusalem to Antipatris by soldiers guarding him from a Jewish assassination plot.
Paul's nighttime transport through Antipatris to Caesarea illustrates the providential protection God exercised over his apostle. Though Paul faced constant danger, God's purpose for his Rome testimony would not be thwarted (Acts 23:11). Even Roman soldiers, unwitting instruments of providence, served to protect the bearer of the gospel.