Acts 24:1

Now after five days Ananias the high priest came down with the elders and a certain attorney named Tertullus, who made known to the governor the charges against Paul.

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders, and with a certain orator named Tertullus, who informed the governor against Paul.

In Context

2And when he had been called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying: “Attaining much peace by you and successes coming about for this nation by your foresight,

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Cross References

Acts 12:21And on an appointed day Herod, clothing himself with royal apparel, and sitting on the judgment seat, was delivering an address to them.

Acts 23:2But the high priest Ananias commanded those standing by him to strike him on the mouth.

Acts 23:30And when it became known to me that a plot against the man by the Jews was about to happen, I sent him at once to you, and also commanded the accusers to state the charges against him before you. Farewell.

Acts 24:11because you being able to know that it has not been more than twelve days since I went up to worship in Jerusalem.

Acts 25:15about whom the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, when I was in Jerusalem, asking for punishment against him.

Matthew Henry on Acts 24:1

We left Paul a prisoner at Cæsarea, in Herod's judgment-hall, expecting his trial to come on quickly; for in the beginning of his imprisonment his affairs moved very quickly, but afterwards very slowly. In this chapter we have his arraignment and trial before Felix the governor at Cæsarea; here is, I. The appearing of the prosecutors against him, and the setting of the prisoner to the bar, ver. 1, 2 . II. The opening of the indictment against him by Tertullus, who was of counsel for the prosecutors, and the… Read the whole commentary →

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