So when he had gathered together all the chief priests and rabbis of the people, he began to inquire of them where the Christ was to be born.

After this Jesus the Christ began to show his disciples how he must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things at the hands of the elders and chief priests and Scribes, and be put to death, and on the third day be raised again.

"Look! We are on the way up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man will be betrayed to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death,

But when the chief priests and the Scribes saw the wonderful works he did, and the boys who were shouting in the Temple Courts and saying, "Hosanna to the Son of David!"

As they listened to his parables, the chief priests and the Pharisees recognized that he was speaking about them;

Then the chief priests and the elders of the people met together in the court of the palace of the high priest who was called Caiaphas,

went to the chief priests and said, "What are you ready to give me for betraying him to you?" So they weighed him thirty pieces of silver;

Barely had he spoken these words when Judas, one of the Twelve, appeared, accompanied by a great crowd of men with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.

And the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were trying to get false evidence against Jesus, in order that they might have him executed;

And when the morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, how they might put him to death.

Then when Judas, his betrayer, saw that he was condemned, he repented and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders.

The chief priests took the money, and said, "It would be wrong to put it into the temple-treasury, because it is the price of blood."

"It is as you say," answered Jesus; but while he was being accused by the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.

But the chief priests and the elders urged the crowds to ask for Barabbas, and to destroy Jesus.

In like manner the chief priests, too, with the Scribes and elders, kept taunting him.

The day after??hat is, the day following the Preparation??he chief priests and Pharisees went in a body to Pilate and said:

and he began to explain to them that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests, and the Scribes, and be put to death, and after two days rise again.

The chief priests and the Scribes heard this, and they began to seek means of destroying him; for they were afraid of him because all the crowd were greatly struck with his teaching.

Now two days later was the feast of the Passover and of Unleavened Bread. Both the chief priests and the Scribes were continually seeking how they might arrest him by a stratagem and kill him;

Then they took Jesus to the high priest, and all the chief priests and elders and Scribes came with him.

When the chief priests continued making many accusations against him, Pilate repeatedly questioned him.

But the chief priests incited the crowds to have Barabbas released to them, instead.

And he went out and conferred with the chief priests and commanders

And Pilate said to the chief priest and the crowd, "I find no harm in this man."

So Pilate called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,

Then the officers returned to the chief priest and Pharisees,

So the chief priests and Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin.

Now the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that if any one knew where he was. he should give information, so that they might arrest him.

And the chief priests plotted to kill Lazarus too,

So after getting troops and some Temple police from the chief priests and Pharisees, Judas came there with lanterns and torches and weapons.

So when the chief priests and the police saw him, they shouted. "Crucify him! Crucify him!" "Take him yourselves and crucify him," said Pilate, "for I find no crime in him."

Then they shouted. "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!" "Crucify your King?" said Pilate. The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar!"

"In this city, too, he has authority from the chief priests to arrest all those who call upon thy name."

The next day, as he wished to learn the real reason why the Jews accused Paul, he unbound him, and commanded the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin to come together, and brought Paul down, and placed him before them.

"The chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me about him, when I was at Jerusalem, demanding a sentence against him.

"And this also I did in Jerusalem. Armed with authority from the chief priests, I shut up many of the saints in prison, and when they were condemned to death I gave my vote against them.

"On this errand I was traveling to Damascus one day, armed with authority and commission of the chief priests,

For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices; whence it follows that this High Priest also must have some offering to make.