Acts 26:12
In which [persecutions] also, going to Damascus with authority, and a commission from the chief priests,
John 7:45-48
Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, Why have you not brought him?
John 11:57
And the chief priests and Pharisees had given commandment, that if any one knew where he was he should make it known, that they might take him by force.
Acts 9:1-8
BUT Saul, yet breathing out threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the chief priest
Acts 22:5-11
as the chief priest also bears me witness, and all the eldership, from whom also receiving letters to the brothers I went to Damascus, to bring those who were there bound to Jerusalem to be punished.
Acts 26:10
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.