Acts 25:2

Then the high priest R. V."And the chief priests." For the best MSS. give the plural. No doubt Ananias, as before, was the leader of the accusation, but he got others of his own class to support him in Jerusalem. He was their representative when the hearing was in Cæsarea.

and the chief of the Jews This might mean "the chief part;" therefore it is better, with R. V., to read "the principal men of the Jews." The wealthiest men of the nation belonged to the Sadducees.

informed him against Paul The verb indicates that the proceedings here assumed a legal form. It was no mere mention in any irregular way, but a definite charge was made, no doubt in the same terms which Tertullus had used before.