# Acts 24:1

> Five days later the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and a lawyer named Tertullus, who presented to the governor their case against Paul.

— Acts 24:1, Berean Standard Bible

## On the map

- **Caesarea** (Judea · today Caesarea Maritima) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/caesarea

## When

- c. AD 57-59 (counted from the text)
- Date source: Acts 24:27 gives two years in Caesarea and marks the change from Felix to Festus, which Josephus (Antiquities XX.8) puts in AD 59.

## Who ruled

- **Antonius Felix**, procurator of Judea, AD 52-59, named in the text · Source: Josephus, Antiquities XX.7-8; Tacitus, Annals XII.54
- **Nero**, emperor of Rome, AD 54-68 · Source: Tacitus, Annals XIII-XVI; Suetonius, Nero
- **Herod Agrippa II**, king of Judea, AD 50-93 · Source: Josephus, Jewish War II; Antiquities XX
- **Porcius Festus**, procurator of Judea, AD 59-62 · Source: Josephus, Antiquities XX.8-9

## See also

- Acts 23:2 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/23/2
- Acts 24:11 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/24/11
- Psalms 11:2 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/11/2
- Acts 21:27 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/21/27
- Acts 23:24 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/23/24
- Acts 23:30 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/23/30
- Acts 23:35 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/23/35
- Acts 25:2 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/25/2

Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0.

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/24/1
- Whole chapter: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/24
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).