Acts 25:2

ἐνεφάνισαν, cf. Acts 23:15; Acts 24:1 : here the context evidently implies that legal and formal information was laid against Paul. If we read οἱ ἀρχ., cf. Acts 4:5. οἱ πρῶτοι : sometimes taken as = πρεσβ. in Acts 25:15, cf. Acts 23:14; Acts 24:1, but in Luke 19:47 we have οἱ ἀρχ. καὶ οἱ γράμμ. καὶ οἱ πρῶτοι τοῦ λαοῦ. The difference of designation seems to indicate that they were not identical with the πρεσβ., although perhaps including them, or possibly as their chief representatives: see also Plummer on Luke, l. c. Blass seems to identify πρῶτοι with ἀρχιερεῖς, cf. Acts 4:5, ἄρχοντες. παρέκαλουν : the word and the tense mark their importunity.