16 Bible Verses about Governors

In those days an edict was issued by the Emperor Augustus that a census of the whole world should be taken. It was the first census, taken when Quirinius was governor of Syria.

And they bound him and led him away and handed him over to Pilate the governor.

And if news of it reaches the governor, we will satisfy him, and see that you do not get into trouble."

In the fifteenth year of the reign of the Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod governor of Galilee, while his brother Philip was governor of the territory of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was the governor of Abilene,

So they kept watch of him and set some spies who pretended to be honest men to fasten on something that he said, so that they might hand him over to the control and authority of the governor.

Then they took Jesus from Caiaphas to the governor's house. It was early in the morning, and they would not go into the governor's house themselves, to avoid being ceremonially defiled and to be able to eat the Passover supper.

They were also to provide horses for Paul to ride, so that they might take him in safety to Felix, the governor,

Five days later, the high priest Ananias came down with some of the elders and an attorney named Tertullus, and they presented their case against Paul before the governor.

Then the king rose, with the governor and Bernice and those who had sat with them, and after leaving the room, in talking the matter over together, they said, "This man has not done anything to deserve death or imprisonment." "He might have been set at liberty," said Agrippa to Festus, "if he had not appealed to the emperor."

When I was at Damascus, the governor under King Aretas had the city gates watched in order to catch me,

and you will be brought before governors and kings on my account, to bear your testimony before them and the heathen.

But you must be on your guard; they will hand you over to courts and you will be taken into synagogues and beaten, and you will be brought before governors and kings on my account, to testify to them.

But before all this, men will arrest you and persecute you, and hand you over to synagogues and prisons and have you brought before kings and governors on my account.

and to governors, as sent by him to punish evil-doers, and to encourage those who do right.

At the same time he hoped to get money from Paul, and for that reason he used to send for him very often and talk with him.