'Authorities' in the Bible

When they bring you before the synagogues and the rulers and the authorities, do not worry about how or what you are to speak in your defense, or what you are to say;

But when her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the market place before the authorities,

When they did not find them, they began dragging Jason and some brethren before the city authorities, shouting, “These men who have upset the world have come here also;

They stirred up the crowd and the city authorities who heard these things.

Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God.

so that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places.

For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him.

When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through Him.

Remind them to be subject to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good deed,

who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, after angels and authorities and powers had been subjected to Him.