16 Bible Verses about Governors

Now in those days an edict was issued by Caesar Augustus for a census of the whole world. (This was the first census, and it took place when Quirinius was governor of Syria.)

After binding him, they led him off and handed him over to Pontius Pilate the governor.

"If this comes to the ears of the governor," they added, "we will satisfy him and see that you have no trouble about the matter."

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judaea, Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, Philip his brother tetrarch of the country of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysias tetrarch of Abilene,

So watching their chance they sent spies who pretended to be honest persons, in order to seize on what he said and get him handed over to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.

Then from the house of Caiaphas they took Jesus to the praetorium. (It was early morning.) They would not enter the praetorium themselves, in case of being ceremonially defiled, for they wanted to eat the passover;

Horses were also to be provided, on which they were to mount Paul and carry him safe to Felix the governor.

Five days later down came the high priest Ananias with some elders and a barrister called Tertullus. They laid information before the governor against Paul.

Then the king rose, with the governor and Bernice and those who had been seated beside them. They retired to discuss the affair, and agreed that "this man has done nothing to deserve death or imprisonment." "He might have been released," said Agrippa to Festus, "if he had not appealed to Caesar."

(At Damascus the ethnarch of king Aretas had patrols out in the city of the Damascenes to arrest me,

and you will be haled before governors and kings for my sake ??it will be a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.

Look to yourselves. Men will hand you over to Sanhedrins and you will be flogged in synagogues and brought before governors and kings for my sake, to testify to them.

But before all that, men will lay hands on you and persecute you, handing you over to synagogues and prisons; you will be dragged before kings and governors for the sake of my name.

and to governors as deputed by him for the punishment of wrongdoers and the encouragement of honest people ??15 for it is the will of God that by your honest lives you should silence the ignorant charges of foolish persons.

(though at the same time he hoped Paul would give him a bribe). So he did send for him pretty frequently and conversed with him.