Acts 24:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

After five days, Ananias Who would spare no trouble on the occasion; descended To Cesarea, seventy miles from Jerusalem; with several of the elders Members of the sanhedrim. It seems the commander of the horsemen, who brought Paul to Cesarea, was ordered, on his return, to inform the high-priest and elders at Jerusalem of the day which the governor should fix for hearing their accusation, and for trying the prisoner. With a certain orator named Tertullus Whose business it was to open the cause, and to harangue the governor in the most agreeable manner that he could; who That is, all who, as the word οιτινες implies, not referring to Tertullus only, but to the high-priest and elders also; informed the governor against Paul Advanced a general accusation against him, on which they desired to be more particularly heard.