George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Acts 24:1
Ananias went down to Cæsarea, where Paul was then confined. This is the sense of the Greek.
Ananias went down to Cæsarea, where Paul was then confined. This is the sense of the Greek.
CHAPTER XXIV. _After five days, Ananias the high priest, the elders, and one_ _Tertullus, an orator, come to Caesarea to accuse Paul_, 1. _The oration of Tertullus_, 2-9. _Paul's defence_, 10-21....
AND AFTER FIVE DAYS - This time was occupied, doubtless, in their receiving the command to go to Caesarea, and in making the necessary arrangements. This was the twelfth day after Paul’s arrival at Je...
CHAPTER 23 _ 1. Paul before the Sanhedrin (Acts 23:1)._ 2. The vision of the Lord (Acts 23:11). 3. The Conspiracy against Paul (Acts 23:12). 4. Paul taken to Caesarea ...
HEARING BEFORE FELIX: SPEECH FOR THE PROSECUTION. It would take five days (1) for the summons of Lysias (Acts 23:30) to be acted on, and the prosecutors to travel down. The High Priest and some elders...
Five days afterwards Ananias the high priest came down with some of the elders and with a pleader called Tertullus. They laid information against Paul before the governor. When Paul was called, Tertul...
A FLATTERING SPEECH AND A FALSE CHARGE (Acts 24:1-9)...
ANANIAS. See note on Acts 23:2. DESCENDED. came down. THE. certain. Greek. _tis_. App-123. ELDERS. See App-189. CERTAIN. Greek. _tis_, as above. ORATOR. advocate. Greek. _rhet_. _r_. Only here. T...
Acts 24:1. Arrival of the Accusers. Speech of Tertullus, their advocate 1. _And after five days_ Most naturally this means after St Paul's arrival in Cæsarea, and the events narrated at the end of cha...
Acts 24:1-9. ARRIVAL OF THE ACCUSERS. SPEECH OF TERTULLUS, THEIR ADVOCATE...
ΠΡΕΣΒΥΤΈΡΩΝ ΤΙΝΩ͂Ν for τῶν πρεσβυτέρων with אABE. _Vulg_. ‘cum senioribus quibusdam.’ 1. ΜΕΤᾺ ΔῈ ΠΈΝΤΕ ἩΜΈΡΑΣ, _and after five days_. Most naturally this means after St Paul’s arrival in Cæsarea, and...
_PAUL WAS ACCUSED IN THE COURT OF FELIX ACTS 24:1-9:_ The High Priest and the Jews knew that they had done wrong in their dealing with Paul so they wanted to get the matter settled quickly. Their inte...
ΚΑΤΈΒΗ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΚΑΤΑΒΑΊΝΩ (G2597) спускаться. Обвинители Павла как иудеи занимали более высокое политическое, общественное и экономическое положение, но Павел был гражданином Рима (BAFCS, 3...
ANANIAS—DESCENDED— Or, _Went down._...
b. Paul's trial before Felix the governor. Acts 24:1-22. Acts 24:1 And after five days the high priest Ananias came down with certain elders, and with an orator, one Tertullus; and they informed th...
XXIV: 1. When the Jews were commanded by Lysias to present their accusation before Felix, though disappointed in their first plot, they still hoped to accomplish his destruction, and made no delay in...
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. A Deputation from the Sanhedrim, employing a...
28 As in the case of our Lord, witness after witness testified that Paul had done nothing deserving the bonds he endured or the death with which he was threatened. All who heard his case concurred in...
ST. PAUL BEFORE FELIX 1-27. St Paul and Felix. 1. Tertullus] in spite of his Roman name may have been a Greek or even a Jew (cp.'our Law,' AV Acts 24:6)....
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 24 THE *JEWISH LEADERS ACCUSE PAUL, 24:1-9 V1 Five days later, Ananias the *high priest went to Caesarea. Some leaders and Tertullus, a lawyer,...
XXIV. (1) AFTER FIVE DAYS. — The interval may have just allowed time for messengers to go from Cæsarea to Jerusalem, and for the priests to make their arrangements and engage their advocate. Possibly,...
πέντε ἡμέρας : most probably to be reckoned from the arrival of St. Paul at Cæsarea, not from his apprehension in Jerusalem, or from his start from Jerusalem on the way to Cæsarea. This latter view is...
TRUTH AGAINST SLANDER Acts 24:1 Paul was always on the lookout for the one ray of light in murky skies. He found a reason for counting himself happy in this dark hour, Acts 24:10. He held himself wit...
Tertullus, who appeared here, was a Roman barrister, it being necessary for the Jews to employ such in presenting their cases before a Roman tribunal. The charges he made were palpably false. His desc...
The Jews Present the Case Against Paul After five days, the high priest, elders and an orator, or, as Ash says was the case, an attorney, presented themselves before the governor to bring a formal cha...
And (1) after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders, and [with] a certain orator [named] Tertullus, who informed the governor against Paul. (1) Hypocrites, when they can not do...
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. (2) And when he was called forth, Tertullus be...
CONTENTS Paul accused by Tertullus, answereth in his Defence. Felix defers judgment. Paul preacheth before Felix and his Wife. The Governor is superseded in Office, and leaves Paul in Bonds....
The closing Chapter s from 21 to the end of the book are devoted to an episode full of interest and profit Paul's course from Jerusalem to Rome. And here we find ourselves in an atmosphere considerabl...
− 1.Seeing Ananias goeth down to Cesarea to accuse Paul, it maketh the conjecture more probable, which I brought before touching his priesthood. For it was not meet for the highest priest to take such...
Paul appears before the governors in succession the Sanhedrim, Felix, Festus, Agrippa, and afterwards Caesar. And here, when occasion offers, we have striking appeals to conscience; when his defence i...
AND AFTER FIVE DAYS ANANIAS THE HIGH PRIEST DESCENDED WITH THE ELDERS,.... From Jerusalem to Caesarea: these five days are to be reckoned not from the seizing of Paul in the temple, but from his comin...
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. Ver. 1. _With a certain orator_] One of t...
_After five days, Ananias_ Who would spare no trouble on the occasion; _descended_ To Cesarea, seventy miles from Jerusalem; _with_ several of _the elders_ Members of the sanhedrim. It seems the comma...
TERTULLUS; a lawyer employed to plead against Paul....
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....
PAUL'S TRIAL BEFORE FELIX. The delegation of Jews from Jerusalem:...
The Jews did not delay long just taking enough time (5 days) to make plans by which to influence Felix against Paul. The high priest and elders of the people came down, bringing with them an orator na...
NOW AFTER FIVE DAYS ANNANIAS THE HIGH PRIEST CAME DOWN WITH THE ELDERS AND A CERTAIN ORATOR NAMED TERTULLUS. THESE GAVE EVIDENCE TO THE GOVERNOR AGAINST PAUL. 1. Notice that it took them five days to...
"After five days" When on the next day the Jews came to request that Paul be brought and reexamined by the Sanhedrin (Acts 23:15), they found that he had been moved to Caesarea, and that the Roman gov...
1-9 See here the unhappiness of great men, and a great unhappiness it is, to have their services praised beyond measure, and never to be faithfully told of their faults; hereby they are hardened and...
ACTS CHAPTER 24 ACTS 24:1 Paul is accused before Felix by Tertullus in the name of the Jews. ACTS 24:10 He answereth in defence of his life and doctrine. ACTS 24:22,23 The hearing is deferred....
XXIV: 1. When the Jews were commanded by Lysias to present their accusation before Felix, though disappointed in their first plot, they still hoped to accomplish his destruction, and made no delay in...
Acts 24:1 Now G1161 after G3326 five G4002 days G2250 Ananias G367 priest G749 down G2597 (G5627) with...
‘And after five days the high priest Ananias came down with certain elders, and with an orator, one Tertullus, and they informed the governor against Paul.' The importance attached to Paul comes out i...
_The Trial of St, Paul at Cæsarea before FelixTertullus, on the part of the Sanhedrim, accuses the Apostle,_ 1-9. Acts 24:1. AND AFTER FIVE DAYS ANANIAS THE HIGH PRIEST DESCENDED WITH THE ELDERS. That...
AND WITH AN ORATOR, ONE TERTULLUS (κα ρητορος Τερτυλλου τινος). A deputation of elders along with the high priest Ananias, not the whole Sanhedrin, but no hint of the forty conspirators or of the As...
CONTENTS: Paul accused before Felix, and his defense. CHARACTERS: Ananias, elders, Tertullus, Felix, Paul, Lysias, Drusilla, Festus. CONCLUSION: Every false cause can find men of sharp wits to plead...
Acts 24:1. _After five days, Ananias descended with the elders;_ to intimidate the governor, and ensure the destruction of Paul, as they had done with Pilate in regard of the Saviour. They lost no tim...
FIVE DAYS LATER. Five days after Paul had escaped from Jerusalem. Roman justice moved swiftly. The deep hatred of the Jewish leaders is shown by the fact that the High Priest himself comes, with some...
_And after five days Ananias the high priest descended … with a certain orator named Tertullus._ PAUL BEFORE FELIX--A PICTURE OF BARRISTERIAL DEPRAVITY 1. From his Roman name we judge that Tertullus...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 24:1 The Witness in Caesarea. Paul was imprisoned in Caesarea for more than two years. He received formal hearings from the governors Felix and Festus and the Jewish king Agrippa II....
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 24:1. AFTER FIVE DAYS.—Reckoned from Paul’s departure from Jerusalem (Kuinoel, Meyer, De Wette, Hackett, Alford, Plumptre), though some (Holtzmann, Lechler, Zöckler, Olshausen,...
EXPOSITION ACTS 24:1 _The high priest Ananias came down _for _Ananias the high priest descended, _A.V.; _certain elders _for _the elders, _A.V. and T.R.; _an orator, one Tertullus _for _a certain ora...
Shall we turn now to chapter twenty-four in the book of Acts. Paul had been seen in the temple worshipping God by some of the Jews that were from Asia who were familiar with Paul's ministry among the...
1 Corinthians 2:1; 1 Corinthians 2:4; Acts 12:21; Acts 23:2; Acts 23:3
An orator [ρ η τ ο ρ ο ς]. An advocate. The Jews, being little acquainted with Roman forms and laws, had to employ Roman advocates....
Ananias — Who would spare no trouble on the occasion, with several of the elders, members of the sanhedrim....
Observe here, How Ananias the high-priest, with the elders or heads of the Jewish council at Jerusalem, travel from thence to Cesarea,. great many miles, to inform the governor against St. Paul; AFTER...