Acts 24:1 - Exposition

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 orator named Tertullus, A.V.; and they for who, A.V. After five days . Of which the first was the day on which St. Paul left Jerusalem, and the fifth that on which Ananias and his companions appeared before Felix (see Acts 24:11 , note). Tertullus . A Latin name, formed from Tertius, as Lucullus from Lucius , Catullus from Catius, etc. Informed ; ἐμφανίζω , in the sense of "laying an information" before a magistrate, only occurs elsewhere in Acts 25:2 , Acts 25:15 (see above, Acts 23:15 , note).