with Annas the high priest, Caiphas, John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the pontifical family.

Then the high priest, and all that accompanied him, who were of the sect of the Sadducees, being filled with indignation,

when they heard that, they entred into the temple early in the morning, and taught. in the mean time, the high priest, and those of his party, being arrived at the council-chamber, summon'd all the Jewish senate to meet, and sent to the prison to bring the apostles before them.

Upon hearing this, the high priest, the captain of the temple, and the chief priests wonder'd bow this could be.

when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them,

Then said the high priest, are these things so?

went to the high priest, and demanded letters for the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any of this sect, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

this the high-priest and the senate know too well: from them I receiv'd my warrant directed to the Jews of Damascus, where I went, to bring the converts there in chains to Jerusalem, in order to be punished.

at which the high priest Ananias order'd those that were near him to strike him on the face:

what, said the standers-by, do you revile the high priest of God?

Paul replied, I did not consider, brethren, that he was the high priest. it is indeed written, "thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people."

when the high priest and the chief of the Jews waited upon him with an information against Paul,

where numbers of converts I threw into jail, by warrant from the high priests: and when they were put to death, I myself was an accomplice.

with such views, authorized by commission from the high priests, I was on the road to Damascus: