The Nazarenes (or Nazoreans; Greek: Ναζωραῖοι, "Nazōraioi") were an early Jewish Christian sect in first-century Judaism. The first use of the term is found in the Acts of the Apostles () of the New Testament, where Paul the Apostle is accused of being a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes ("") before the Roman procurator Antonius Felix at Caesarea Maritima by Tertullus. At that time, the term simply designated followers of Jesus of Nazareth, as the Hebrew term (""), and the Arabic term النَّصَرىٰ still do.