which was attended by the high priest Annas, by Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and all the members of the high priest's family.

On being released they went to their friends and related what the high priests and elders had said;

This filled the high priest Annas and his allies, the Sadducean party, with bitter jealousy;

With these orders they went into the temple about dawn and proceeded to teach. Meantime the high priest and his allies met, called the Sanhedrin together and the council of seniors belonging to the sons of Israel, and then sent to prison for the men.

On hearing this the commander of the temple and the high priests were quite at a loss to know what to make of it.

They conducted them before the Sanhedrin, and the high priest asked them,

Said the high priest, "Is this true?"

Meanwhile Saul still breathed threats of murder against the disciples of the Lord. He went to the high priest

And in this city too he has authority from the high priests to put anyone in chains who invokes thy Name!"

He lost no time in preaching throughout the synagogues that Jesus was the Son of God ??21 to the amazement of all his hearers, who said, "Is this not the man who in Jerusalem harried those who invoke this Name, the man who came here for the express purpose of carrying them all in chains to the high priests?"

The seven sons of Sceuas, a Jewish high priest, used to do this.

as the high priest and all the council of elders can testify. It was from them that I got letters to the brotherhood at Damascus, and then journeyed thither to bind those who had gathered there and bring them back to Jerusalem for punishment.

Next day, as he was anxious to find out the real reason why the Jews accused him, he unbound him, ordered the high priests and all the Sanhedrin to meet, and brought Paul down, placing him in front of them.

Then the high priest Ananias ordered those who were standing next Paul to strike him on the mouth.

The bystanders said, "What! would you rail at God's high priest?"

"Brothers," said Paul, "I did not know he was high priest" (for it is written, You must not speak evil of any ruler of your people).

They then went to the high priests and elders, saying, "We have taken a solemn oath to taste no food till we have killed Paul.

Five days later down came the high priest Ananias with some elders and a barrister called Tertullus. They laid information before the governor against Paul.

The high priests and the Jewish leaders laid information before him against Paul, and begged him,

When I was at Jerusalem, the high priests and elders of the Jews informed me about him and demanded his condemnation.

I did so in Jerusalem. I shut up many of the saints in prison, armed with authority from the high priests; when they were put to death, I voted against them;

I was travelling to Damascus on this business, with authority and a commission from the high priests,