Acts 24:1
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. 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.
Five days after Paul arrived at Caesarea, his accusers came down from Jerusalem to Caesarea for his hearing before the governor. The accusing party included Ananias the high priest with the elders. With them was Tertullus, an orator hired to serve as their counsel and legal representative to present the accusations.
They came to inform the governor against Paul and to present the case and charges against him, intending to secure his condemnation. The case was granted a speedy hearing, Paul was brought before the assembly, and Tertullus began stating the accusations. This setting belongs to a pattern in which Jewish tribunals condemned Paul without proving his guilt while Roman magistrates recognized his innocence, so Paul appealed to his right as a Roman citizen to be judged before Caesar rather than be returned to Jewish jurisdiction.
The verse shows the popular clamor and accusations pressed against Paul before the Roman governor at Caesarea that the new governor Festus met when he took office. That clamor at Caesarea was distinct from the later formal demand for Paul's death brought to Festus at Jerusalem by a deputation of the most honorable personages of the city headed by the high priest.