'Chief Priests' in the Bible

The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to arrest him.

The officers then went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, "Why did you not bring him?"

Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, "What are we to do? For this man performs many signs.

Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, so that they might arrest him.

So the chief priests planned to put Lazarus also to death,

So Judas, having received a detachment of soldiers and some officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.

Pilate answered, "Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have handed you over to me; what have you done?"

When the chief priests and officers saw him, they cried out, "Crucify him, crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "You take him and crucify him, for I find no fault in him."

But they cried out, "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The chief priests answered, "We have no King but Caesar."

The chief priests of the Jews then said to Pilate, "Do not write, 'The King of the Jews,' but, 'This man said, I am King of the Jews.'"