Acts 26:12
"While doing this very thing, as I was going to Damascus with authority and complete power from the chief priests,
1 Kings 21:8-10
She wrote out orders, signed Ahab's name to them, and sealed them with his seal. She then sent the orders to the leaders and to the nobles who lived in Naboth's city.
Psalm 94:20-21
Cruel rulers are not your allies, those who make oppressive laws.
Isaiah 10:1
Those who enact unjust policies are as good as dead, those who are always instituting unfair regulations,
Jeremiah 26:8
Jeremiah had just barely finished saying all the Lord had commanded him to say to all the people. All at once some of the priests, the prophets, and the people grabbed him and shouted, "You deserve to die!
Jeremiah 29:26-27
"The Lord has made you priest in place of Jehoiada. He has put you in charge in the Lord's temple of controlling any lunatic who pretends to be a prophet. And it is your duty to put any such person in the stocks with an iron collar around his neck.
John 7:45-48
Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, "Why didn't you bring him back with you?"
John 11:57
(Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus was should report it, so that they could arrest him.)
Acts 9:1-8
Meanwhile Saul, still breathing out threats to murder the Lord's disciples, went to the high priest
Acts 22:5-11
as both the high priest and the whole council of elders can testify about me. From them I also received letters to the brothers in Damascus, and I was on my way to make arrests there and bring the prisoners to Jerusalem to be punished.
Acts 26:10
And that is what I did in Jerusalem: Not only did I lock up many of the saints in prisons by the authority I received from the chief priests, but I also cast my vote against them when they were sentenced to death.