So he called together all the high priests and scribes of the people and asked them where the Christ was to be born.

It was then that Jesus Christ for the first time explained to his disciples that he had to go to Jerusalem and endure great suffering there at the hands of the elders, high priests, and scribes, and be killed, and be raised to life on the third day.

"We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the high priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death,

But when the high priests and the scribes saw the wonders that he did and saw the boys shouting in the Temple, "God bless the Son of David!" they were indignant,

When he had entered the Temple, and was teaching, the high priests and the elders of the people came up to him, and said, "What authority have you for doing as you do, and who gave you this authority?"

When the high priests and the Pharisees heard his figures, they knew that he was speaking about them,

Then the high priests and the elders of the people gathered in the house of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,

Then one of the Twelve, named Judas Iscariot, went to the high priests,

Just as he was speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, came up, and with him a great crowd with swords and clubs, from the high priests and the elders of the people.

One of the men with Jesus put out his hand and drew his sword, and striking at the high priest's slave, cut his ear off.

The men who had seized Jesus took him away to Caiaphas, the high priest, at whose house the scribes and elders had gathered.

And Peter followed him at a distance as far as the courtyard of the high priest's house, and he went inside and sat down among the attendants to see how it came out.

Now the high priests and the whole council were trying to get false testimony against Jesus, so that they might put him to death.

And the high priest got up and said to him, "Have you no answer to make? What about their evidence against you?"

But Jesus was silent. And the high priest said to him, "I charge you, on your oath, by the living God, tell us whether you are the Christ, the son of God."

Then the high priest tore his clothing and said, "He has uttered blasphemy! What do we want of witnesses now? Here you have heard his blasphemy!

When it was morning, all the high priests and elders of the people held a consultation about Jesus, with a view to putting him to death.

Then Judas who had betrayed him, when he saw that he had been condemned, in his remorse brought back the thirty silver pieces to the high priests and elders,

The high priests gathered up the money, and they said, "It is not legal to put this into the Temple treasury, for it is blood money."

And while the high priests and elders were making their charges against him, he made no answer.

But the high priests and the elders prevailed on the crowd to ask for Barabbas, and to have Jesus put to death.

And the high priests, too, made sport of him with the scribes and elders, and said,

On the next day, that is, the day after the Preparation Day, the high priests and Pharisees went in a body to Pilate

While they were on their way, some of the guard went into the city and reported to the high priests all that had happened.