with Annas the High Priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and the other members of the high-priestly family.

After their release the two Apostles went to their friends, and told them all that the High Priests and Elders had said.

This roused the High Priest. He and all his party--the sect of the Sadducees--were filled with angry jealousy

Having received that command they went into the Temple, just before daybreak, and began to teach: So when the High Priest and his party came, and had called together the Sanhedrin as well as all the Elders of the descendants of Israel, they sent to the jail to fetch the Apostles.

When the Commander of the Temple Guards and the High Priests heard this statement, they were utterly at a loss with regard to it, wondering what would happen next.

So they brought them and made them stand in front of the Sanhedrin. And then the High Priest questioned them.

Then the High Priest asked him, "Are these statements true?"

went to the High Priest and begged from him letters addressed to the synagogues in Damascus, in order that if he found any believers there, either men or women, he might bring them in chains to Jerusalem.

and here he is authorized by the High Priests to arrest all who call upon Thy name."

and his hearers were all amazed, and began to ask one another, "Is not this the man who in Jerusalem tried to exterminate those who called upon that Name, and came here on purpose to carry them off in chains to the High Priests?"

as the High Priest also and all the Elders can bear me witness. It was, too, from them that I received letters to the brethren in Damascus, and I was already on my way to Damascus, intending to bring those also who had fled there, in chains to Jerusalem, to be punished.

The next day, wishing to know exactly what charge was being brought against him by the Jews, the Tribune ordered his chains to be removed; and, having sent word to the High Priests and all the Sanhedrin to assemble, he brought Paul down and made him stand before them.

On hearing this the High Priest Ananias ordered those who were standing near Paul to strike him on the mouth.

"Do you rail at God's High Priest?" cried the men who stood by him.

"I did not know, brethren," replied Paul, "that he was the High Priest; for it is written, 'Thou shalt not speak evil of a ruler of Thy people.'"

They went to the High Priests and Elders and said to them, "We have bound ourselves under a heavy curse to take no food till we have killed Paul.

Five days after this, Ananias the High Priest came down to Caesarea with a number of Elders and a pleader called Tertullus. They stated to the Governor the case against Paul.

The High Priests and the leading men among the Jews immediately made representations to him against Paul, and begged him--

about whom, when I went to Jerusalem, the High Priests and the Elders of the Jews made representations to me, begging that sentence might be pronounced against him.

And that was how I acted in Jerusalem. Armed with authority received from the High Priests I shut up many of God's people in various prisons, and when they were about to be put to death I gave my vote against them.

"While thus engaged, I was travelling one day to Damascus armed with authority and a commission from the High Priests,