16 Bible Verses about Governors

NOW it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that the whole land should be registered. (And this first enrolment was made by Cyrenius, [afterwards] governor of Syria)

And having bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.

And if this comes to the governor's ears, we will persuade him, and preserve you harmless.

NOW in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother tetrarch of Iturea and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene:

And watching him, they sent men they had suborned, who pretended that they were righteous persons, in order to lay hold of some word of his, that they might deliver him to the power and authority of the governor.

Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas to the praetorium: and it was early: and they themselves went not into the praetorium, that they should not be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.

and provide beasts, that setting Paul thereon, you may convey him safely to Felix the governor.

SO after five days Ananias the high-priest went down with the elders, and a certain rhetorician, Tertullus, who made their appearance before the governor against Paul.

So when he had thus spoken, the king arose, and the governor, and Bernice, and they who sat with him, and retiring, conversed together, saying, This man hath done nothing worthy of death, or of chains. And Agrippa said to Festus, This man might have been discharged, if he had not appealed to Caesar.

In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes, intending to seize me;

And ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the heathen.

But take ye heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to their sanhedrims, and to the synagogues; ye shall be beaten with rods, and be set before kings and governors for my name's sake, for a testimony unto them.

But before all these things, they will lay hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and to prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.

or to governors, as sent by him for the punishment of wicked doers, but the praise of those who do well.

Indeed he had also entertained hope that money would be given him by Paul, in order to release him: wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and conversed with him.