16 Bible Verses about Governors

Now in those days an edict was issued by the Emperor Augustus that a census of the whole world should be taken. This, the first census, was taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria.

So they bound Him, led Him away, and turned Him over to Pilate the governor.

And if news of it gets to the governor's ears, we will make it all right with him, and keep you out of trouble."

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

So they closely watched and sent spies who pretended to be upright men, to catch Him in His conversation, so as to turn Him over to the power and authority of the governor.

Then they took Jesus from Caiaphas to the governor's palace. It was early in the morning, and they would not go into the governor's palace themselves, in order not to be defiled, so as to be unfit to eat the Passover supper.

He further told them to provide horses for Paul to ride, so as to bring him in safety to Felix, the governor, to whom

Five days later, the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and a prosecuting attorney, Tertullus, and through him they presented their case against Paul before the governor.

Then the king rose, with the governor and Bernice and those who had been seated with them, and after leaving the room, as they continued to talk the matter over together, they said, "This man has done nothing to deserve death or imprisonment." Agrippa said to Festus, "He might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed to the emperor."

At Damascus the governor under King Aretas kept guards watching the city gates to capture me,

and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness to them and the heathen.

So you must be on the lookout for yourselves; they will turn you over to courts, and to synagogues where you will be beaten, and you must appear before governors and kings for my sake, to testify to them.

But before all this takes place, people will arrest you and persecute you, and turn you over to synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name's sake.

and to governors as sent by Him to punish those who do evil and to reward those who do right.

At the same time he was hoping to get money from Paul, and so he kept on sending for him and talking with him.