Acts 25:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Which among you are able; fit to prosecute Paul in your behalf; as Tertullus was, whom the Jews had carried with them formerly, Acts 24:1. Go down with me; because Jerusalem was in a mountainous part of the country, and much of it built upon a hill. Wickedness; the word properly signifies a foolish thing; but it is also taken for a wicked thing; all sin being folly, and grace wisdom; as they are frequently called in Scripture, though the world hath another opinion of them, many abhorring to be accounted fools, and yet are not though they appear most wicked.