'Authority' in the Bible

He said to them, "It isn't for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.

He arose and went; and behold, there was a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship.

Here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name."

This I also did in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.

"Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,