Acts 25:15

οἱ�, the chief priests. See above on Acts 25:2, and on ἐμφανίζω also.

καταδίκην, judgment, but always with the sense of adverse judgment. Hence Rev. Ver. ‘sentence.’ The word implies that those who asked thought there could be but one opinion and that a condemnatory sentence might be at once pronounced, even by the newly arrived governor.