κατήγορος

Then Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are your accusers? Has no one condemned you?”

When I was informed that there was a plot against the man, I sent him to you at once. I also instructed his accusers to present their case against him before you.

…he said, “I will hear your case when your accusers arrive.” Then he ordered that Paul be kept under guard in Herod’s Praetorium.

I told them that it is not the Roman custom to hand a man over before he has had an opportunity to face his accusers and defend himself against their charges.

But when his accusers rose to speak, they did not charge him with any of the crimes I had expected.

And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ. For the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down—he who accuses them day and night before our God.