with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and all who belonged to the high priest's family.

This aroused the high priest and all his supporters, the party of the Sadducees, and filled them with jealousy,

And they obeyed, and about daybreak went into the Temple and began to teach. The high priest and his party came over and called together the council and indeed the whole senate of the Israelites, and sent to the prison to have the apostles brought in.

So they brought them before the council. The high priest called on them for an explanation.

The high priest said, "Is this statement true?"

Now Saul, still breathing murderous threats against the Lord's disciples, went to the high priest,

The priest of the temple of Zeus that stood at the entrance to the town came with crowds of people to the gates, bringing bulls and garlands, meaning to offer sacrifice to them.

A Jewish high priest named Sceva had seven sons who were doing this.

as the high priest and the whole council will bear me witness. In fact, they gave me letters to the brothers in Damascus and I went there to bind those who were there and bring them back to Jerusalem to be punished.

At this the high priest Ananias ordered the people who were standing nearest to him to strike him on the mouth.

But the people who stood near him said, "Do you mean to insult God's high priest?"

"I did not know, brothers," said Paul, "that he was high priest, for the Scripture says, 'You shall not say anything against any ruler of your people.' "

Five days later, the high priest Ananias came down with some of the elders and an attorney named Tertullus, and they presented their case against Paul before the governor.