'Chief Priests' in the Bible

And being dismissed they came to their friends, and related to them what the chief priests and elders said to them.

And when they heard these words, both the priest and the commander of the temple and the chief priests doubted concerning them, what this could mean.

and here he has power from the chief priests to bind all that call on your name.

And all that heard him were astonished and said, Is not this he that destroyed those who called on this name at Jerusalem, and has come here for this purpose, that he might lead them bound to the chief priests?

AND on the next day, wishing to know the truth in respect to what he was accused of by the Jews, [the chiliarch] released him, and commanded the chief priests and all the Sanhedrim to come together; and bringing Paul down he set him before them.

who came to the chief priests and elders and said, We have bound ourselves under a curse to taste nothing till we kill Paul.

And the chief priests and the first men of the Jews informed him against Paul, and besought him,

concerning whom when I was at Jerusalem the chief priests and elders of the Jews gave me information, asking judgment against him;

which I also did at Jerusalem, and many of the saints I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were killed I gave my vote against them.

In which [persecutions] also, going to Damascus with authority, and a commission from the chief priests,