Matthew 27:1
NOW when the morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus how they might put him to death.
Matthew 26:3-4
Then were the chief priests and scribes, and the elders of the people gathered together in the palace of the high-priest, called Caiaphas.
Matthew 26:59
Now the chief priests and elders and the whole sanhedrim, sought false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death;
Luke 23:1-2
AND the whole multitude of them rising up, led him to Pilate,
Luke 23:5
But they were urgent, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching through all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.