So when he had gathered together all the chief priests and rabbis of the people, he began to inquire of them where the Christ was to be born.

After this Jesus the Christ began to show his disciples how he must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things at the hands of the elders and chief priests and Scribes, and be put to death, and on the third day be raised again.

"Look! We are on the way up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man will be betrayed to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death,

But when the chief priests and the Scribes saw the wonderful works he did, and the boys who were shouting in the Temple Courts and saying, "Hosanna to the Son of David!"

As they listened to his parables, the chief priests and the Pharisees recognized that he was speaking about them;

Then the chief priests and the elders of the people met together in the court of the palace of the high priest who was called Caiaphas,

went to the chief priests and said, "What are you ready to give me for betraying him to you?" So they weighed him thirty pieces of silver;

Barely had he spoken these words when Judas, one of the Twelve, appeared, accompanied by a great crowd of men with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.

And the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were trying to get false evidence against Jesus, in order that they might have him executed;

And 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.

Then when Judas, his betrayer, saw that he was condemned, he repented and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders.

The chief priests took the money, and said, "It would be wrong to put it into the temple-treasury, because it is the price of blood."

"It is as you say," answered Jesus; but while he was being accused by the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.

But the chief priests and the elders urged the crowds to ask for Barabbas, and to destroy Jesus.

In like manner the chief priests, too, with the Scribes and elders, kept taunting him.

The day after??hat is, the day following the Preparation??he chief priests and Pharisees went in a body to Pilate and said: