'Chief Priests' in the Bible

And He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem. And the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes. And they will condemn Him to death and will deliver Him to the nations.

And the scribes and the chief priests heard. And they sought how they might destroy Him. For they feared Him, because all the people were astonished at His doctrine.

And they came again to Jerusalem. And as He was walking in the temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came to Him

And after two days it was the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take Him by craft and kill Him.

And Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the chief priests in order to betray Him to them.

And immediately, while He still spoke, Judas, being one of the Twelve, came, and with him a great crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.

And they led Jesus away to the high priest. And with him were assembled all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes.

And the chief priests and all the sanhedrin sought for witness against Jesus, to put Him to death. And they found none.

And immediately in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council. And they bound Jesus and led Him away and delivered Him to Pilate.

And the chief priests accused Him of many things, but He answered nothing.

For he knew that the chief priests had delivered Him because of envy.

But the chief priests moved the people that he should rather release Barabbas to them.

And also the chief priests mocking, with the scribes, said to one another, He saved others but he cannot save himself.