'Chief Priests' in the Bible

And having been released, they went to their own, and told all that the chief priests and elders had said to them.

When the priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these words, they were in doubt about them, what this could mean.

and here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all that call upon thy name.

And all that heard him were astonished, and said: Is not this he who destroyed in Jerusalem those that call on this name, and who has come hither for this purpose, that he might carry them bound to the chief priests?

And, on the next day, wishing to know certainly why he was accused by the Jews, he loosed him, and commanded the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin to meet together. And he brought Paul down, and placed him before them.

And they went to the chief priests and elders, and said: We have surely bound ourselves under a curse, that we will taste nothing till we have killed Paul.

concerning whom, when I was in Jerusalem, the chief priests and elders of the Jews informed me, asking for judgment against him.

And this I did in Jerusalem; and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests: and when they were put to death, I gave my vote against them.

While I was engaged in these things, and was going to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests,