Now the high priests and the whole council were trying to get false testimony against Jesus, to have Him put to death;

you cling to what men hand down. You are fine teachers to cancel what God commanded, in order to keep what men have handed down!

The high priests and the whole council were trying to get evidence against Jesus to put Him to death, but they could find none,

As soon as it was daylight, the high priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes; and the whole council, after binding Jesus, took Him away and turned Him over to Pilate.

Joseph of Arimathea, a highly honored member of the council, who was himself looking for the kingdom of God, ventured to go to Pilate and ask for Jesus' body.

One Sabbath, when He went to take a meal at the house of a Pharisee who was a member of the council, they continued to watch Him closely.

Then a certain member of the council asked Him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to get possession of eternal life?"

As soon as day came, the elders of the people, the high priests, and the scribes assembled, and brought Him back before their council, and said,

Then Pilate called a meeting of the high priests, the leaders of the council, and the people,

Meanwhile, the people stood looking on. Even the members of the council were scoffing at Him and saying, "He saved others, let Him now save Himself, if He really is the Christ of God, His Chosen One!"

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

who had not voted for the plan and action of the council. He came from a Jewish town, Arimathea, and he was waiting for the kingdom of God.

So the high priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the council, and began to say, "What are we to do? For this man is certainly performing many wonder-works.

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

But they ordered the prisoners to step outside the council, and they conferred together

So they obeyed, and about the break of day they went into the temple square and began to teach. The high priest and his party arrived and called a meeting of the council and the whole senate of the sons of Israel, and sent to the prison to have the men brought in.

So they brought them and had them stand before the council. And the high priest asked them,

But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, highly respected by all the people, got up in the council and gave orders to put the men out of the council a little while;

So they went out from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they had been considered worthy to suffer disgrace for Jesus' name;

By this means they excited the people, the elders, and the scribes, and so they rushed upon him, seized him, and brought him before the council.

Then all who were seated in the council fixed their eyes upon him and saw that his face was like that of an angel.

Some men, however, joined him and came to believe, among them Dionysius, a member of the city council; also a woman named Damaris, and some others.

as the high priest and the whole council will bear me witness. Indeed, I had received letters from them to the brothers in Damascus, and I was on the way there to bind those who were there and bring them back to Jerusalem to be punished.

The next day, as he wished to learn the exact reason why the Jews accused him, he had him unbound, and ordered the high priest and the whole council to assemble, and took Paul down and brought him before them.

Paul fixed his eyes upon the council and said, "Brothers, with a clear conscience I have done my duty to God up to this very day."

Because Paul knew that part of them were Sadducees and part of them Pharisees, he began to cry out in the council chamber, "Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a Pharisee's son, and now I am on trial for the hope of the resurrection of the dead."

So you and the council must now notify the colonel to bring him down to you, as though you were going to look into his case more carefully, but before he gets down we will be ready to kill him."

He answered, "The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though you were going to examine his case more carefully.

As I wanted to know the exact charge they were making against him, I brought him before their council,

Or let these men themselves tell what wrong they found in me when I appeared before the council --

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

As far as I am concerned about you, my brothers, I am convinced that you especially are abounding in the highest goodness, richly supplied with perfect knowledge and competent to counsel one another.

I do not write this to make you blush with shame but to give you counsel as my dear children.

I mean this: The law which was given four hundred and thirty years later could not annul the contract which had already been ratified by God, so as to cancel the promise.

You parents, too, must stop exasperating your children, but continue to bring them up with the sort of education and counsel the Lord approves.

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,