'Elders' in the Bible

"Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the Elders by not washing their hands before meals?"

From this time Jesus began to explain to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer much cruelty from the Elders and the High Priests and the Scribes, and be put to death, and on the third day be raised to life again.

He entered the Temple; and while He was teaching, the High Priests and the Elders of the people came to Him and asked Him, "By what authority are you doing these things? and who gave you this authority?"

Then the High Priests and Elders of the People assembled in the court of the palace of the High Priest Caiaphas,

He had scarcely finished speaking when Judas came--one of the Twelve--accompanied by a great crowd of men armed with swords and bludgeons, sent by the High Priests and Elders of the People.

But the officers who had laid hold of Jesus led Him away to Caiaphas the High Priest, at whose house the Scribes and the Elders had assembled.

When morning came all the High Priests and the Elders of the people consulted together against Jesus to put Him to death;

Then when Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that He was condemned, smitten with remorse he brought back the thirty shekels to the High Priests and Elders

When however the High Priests and the Elders kept bringing their charges against Him, He said not a word in reply.

The High Priests, however, and the Elders urged the crowd to ask for Barabbas and to demand the death of Jesus.

In like manner the High Priests also, together with the Scribes and the Elders, taunted Him.

So the latter held a conference with the Elders, and after consultation with them they heavily bribed the soldiers,