But I tell you that anyone who gets angry with his brother will have to answer to the court, and anyone who speaks contemptuously to his brother will have to answer to the great council, and anyone who says to his brother 'You cursed fool!' will have to answer for it in the fiery pit!

Now the high priests and the whole council were trying to get false testimony against Jesus, so that they might put him to death.

The high priests and the whole council tried to get evidence against Jesus in order to put him to death, and they could find none,

As soon as it was daylight, the high priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes, and they and the whole council bound Jesus and took him away and handed him over to Pilate.

Joseph of Arimathea, a highly respected member of the council, who was himself living in expectation of the reign of God, made bold to go to Pilate and ask for Jesus' body.

One Sabbath, when he went to take a meal at the house of a member of the council who was a Pharisee, they were watching him closely.

A member of the council asked him, "Good master, what must I do to make sure of eternal life?"

As soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the high priests and scribes assembled, and brought him before their council, and said to him,

Pilate summoned the high priests and the leading members of the council and the people,

Now there was a man named Joseph, a member of the council, a good and upright man,

who had not voted for the plan or action of the council. He came from the Jewish town of Arimathea and lived in expectation of the Kingdom of God.

Then the high priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the council, and they said, "What are we to do about the fact that this man is showing so many signs?

On the next day the leading members of the council, the elders, and the scribes met in Jerusalem,

Then Peter, filled with the holy Spirit, said to them, "Leaders of the people and members of the council,

But they ordered them out of the presence of the council and conferred together.

After being released, the apostles went back to their friends, and told them what the high priests and members of the council had said to them.

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.

But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the Law highly regarded by all the people, got up in the council and ordered the men to be removed for a while,

So they went out from before the council, glad that they had been thought worthy to bear disgrace for the sake of Jesus,

They aroused the people, the elders, and the scribes, and they set upon him and seized him, and brought him before the council.

Everyone who sat in the council fixed his eyes on him, and they saw that his face was like that of an angel.

So they took him and brought him to the council of the Areopagus and said, "May we know just what this new teaching of yours is?

Then Paul stood up in the middle of the council and said, "Men of Athens, from every point of view I see that you are extremely religious.

So Paul left the council.

Some persons joined him, however, and became believers, among them Dionysius, a member of the council, and a woman named Damaris, and some others.

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.

The next day, as he wished to find out the real reason why the Jews denounced him, he had him unbound and ordered the high priests and the whole council to assemble, and took Paul down and brought him before them.

Paul looked steadily at the council and said, "Brothers, I have done my duty to God with a perfectly clear conscience up to this very day."

Knowing that part of them were Sadducees and part of them Pharisees, Paul called out in the council, "Brothers, I am a Pharisee, and the son of Pharisees! It is for my hope for the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial!"

Now you and the council must suggest to the colonel that he should have Paul brought down to you, as you mean to look into his case more carefully, and we will be ready to kill him before he gets down."

"The Jews," he answered, "have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, on the ground that you mean to have a fuller inquiry made into his case.

As I wanted to learn what charge they made against him, I had him brought before their council,

Or let these men themselves tell what they found wrong in me when I appeared before the council??21 unless it was the one thing I shouted out as I stood among them??It is on the question of the resurrection of the dead that I am here on trial before you today!' "

Then Festus after conferring with the council answered, "You have appealed to the emperor, and to the emperor you shall go!"

And they said to the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us, and conceal us from the sight of him who is seated on the throne, and from the anger of the Lamb,