Annas the high priest was there, and Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and others who were members of the high priest's family.

When they were released, Peter and John went to their fellow believers and reported everything the high priests and the elders had said to them.

Now the high priest rose up, and all those with him (that is, the religious party of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy.

When they heard this, they entered the temple courts at daybreak and began teaching. Now when the high priest and those who were with him arrived, they summoned the Sanhedrin -- that is, the whole high council of the Israelites -- and sent to the jail to have the apostles brought before them.

When they had brought them, they stood them before the council, and the high priest questioned them,

Then the high priest said, "Are these things true?"

Meanwhile Saul, still breathing out threats to murder the Lord's disciples, went to the high priest

(Now seven sons of a man named Sceva, a Jewish high priest, were doing this.)

as both the high priest and the whole council of elders can testify about me. From them I also received letters to the brothers in Damascus, and I was on my way to make arrests there and bring the prisoners to Jerusalem to be punished.

At that the high priest Ananias ordered those standing near Paul to strike him on the mouth.

Those standing near him said, "Do you dare insult God's high priest?"

Paul replied, "I did not realize, brothers, that he was the high priest, for it is written, 'You must not speak evil about a ruler of your people.'"

After five days the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and an attorney named Tertullus, and they brought formal charges against Paul to the governor.