'Chief Priests' in the Bible

And being let go, they went to their own company and reported what the chief priests and elders had said to them.

And when the high priest and the temple commander and the chief priests heard these things, they were bewildered about them, what this might be.

And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on Your Name.

But all who heard him were amazed and said, Is this not he who destroyed those who called on this name in Jerusalem and came here for that reason, that he might bring them bound to the chief priests?

On the next day, he desiring to know with certainty why he was accused by the Jews, he freed him from his bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all their sanhedrin to appear. And bringing Paul down, he set him among them.

And they came to the chief priests and elders and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse that we will eat nothing until we have killed Paul.

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

which I also did in Jerusalem. And I shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests. And they being put to death, I cast a vote.

In which pursuit also traveling to Damascus with authority and power of decision from the chief priests,