Jesus said to him, "See that you tell no one, but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift which Moses commanded, as an evidence to 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,

And, behold, one of these who were with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword, and smote the slave of the high priest, and cut off his ear.

Then all his disciples forsook him and fled; but those who had apprehended Jesus led him away to Caiaphas, the high priest, where the scribes and the elders had assembled.

Now Peter was following him, afar off, as far as the courtyard of the high priest; and when he got in, he was sitting with the officers, to see the end.

Rising to his feet the high priest asked Jesus. "Do you make no answer? What is it that these are testifying against you?"

But Jesus kept silence. Again the high priest addressed him, "I adjure you by the Living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God!"

Then the high priest tore his garments, saying. "He has spoken blasphemy! What further need have we of witnesses? For behold, now you have heard his blasphemy!

Now while they were on their way, some of the guard went into the city and told the high priest all that had happened.

"See you say nothing to any one; but go your way, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your purification what Moses commanded for a testimony to them."

And no one ever pours new wine into old wine-skins, else the wine would burst the skins, and both wine and skins would be lost. New wine is poured into fresh wine-skins.

How he went into the house of God when Abiathar was priest, and ate the consecrated bread, which none but priests may eat, and gave some to his men?

From within, from the heart of man, proceed evil purposes??22 fornication, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, wantonness, envy, slander, arrogance, reckless folly??23 all these wicked things issue from within and defile a man."

But one of the bystanders drew his sword, and struck the slave of the high priest, and cut off his ear.

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

Peter also had followed Jesus at a distance, until he was inside the court of the high priest. There he was sitting among the officers, warming himself in the light of the fire.

Then the high priest rose and stood forth among them. "Have you no answer to make?" he asked Jesus; "What is it that these testify against you?"

But he remained silent, and answered nothing. Again the high priest questioned him. "Are you the Christ," he said, "the Son of the Blessed?"

Then the high priest tore his vestments. "Why do we need any further witness?" he exclaimed.

Now while Peter was below in the courtyard, there came one of the maid servants of the high priest, and saw Peter warming himself.

In the reign of Herod, King of Judea, there was a certain priest, named Zachariah, belonging to the class of Abijah. He had a wife named Elizabeth,

Now while Zachariah was acting as priest before God in the due course of his class, it fell to his lot, according to the custom of priesthood,

And instantly the leprosy left him. Jesus ordered him to tell no one, "But be off," he said, "show yourself to the priest, and make the offering for your cleansing, as Moses commanded, for a testimony to them."

"Nor does any one pour new wine into old wine-skins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins, and will itself be spilled, and the skins be destroyed

"But he who listens but does not do, is like a man who built a house upon the soil, without foundations, against which the torrent burst, and at once it fell in, and the ruin of that house was great."

"Now a certain priest chanced to be going down that way, but on seeing him he passed on the other side.

It happened while he was saying this, that a certain woman out of the crowd shouted to him, saying, "Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breast that you have sucked."

"'Give place to this man,' and then with mortification you proceed to take the lowest place.

Perceiving this he said to them, "Go and show yourselves to the priest." And as they went they were made clean.

"But the tax-gatherer, standing far back, would not lift up so much as his eyes to heaven, but kept beating his breast and saying, "'O God be merciful to me, the sinner!'

On one of the days while he was teaching the people in the Temple and preaching the gospel, there came up the priest and the Scribes with the elders.

The high priest and the Scribes continually sought means to put him to death.

Then one of them did strike a blow at the high priest's slave, and cut off his right ear.

So they seized him and led him away, and took him to the house of the high priest; while Peter was following him a long way off.

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

He was also followed by a great crowd of people, and of women too, who were beating their breast and lamenting him.

And all the crowds who had assembled to see this spectacle, after witnessing what had been done, were returning beating upon their breast.

"and how our high priest and ruler delivered him to be condemned to death and crucified him.

The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about him, and the high priest and Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

Then the officers returned to the chief priest and Pharisees,

Jesus burst into tears.

But one of their number, Caiaphas by name, who was high priest that year, said to them,

now he did not say this of his own accord; but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die in behalf of the nation,

There was reclining upon Jesus' breast one of the disciples whom he loved.

So that disciples just leaned back against Jesus' breast and said to him, "Lord, who is it?"

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it, and striking at the high priest's slave, cut off his right ear.

and led him to Annas first. (For Annas was the Father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was the high priest that year??14 the Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it was for their advantage that one man should die for the people.)

Meanwhile Simon Peter was following Jesus, and so was another disciple who was known to the high priest, and they went in with Jesus into the court of the high priest's palace.

But Peter took his stand outside, near the door. So the other disciple who was known to the high priest came out and spoke to the doorkeeper and brought Peter in.

Then the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.

When he had spoken these words, one of the police standing by gave him a blow with his hand, saying as he did so, "Is that the way you answer the high priest?"

Then Annas sent him in chains to Caiaphas, the high priest.

One of the slaves of the high priest, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Did not I myself see you with him in the garden."

Peter turned around and saw that the disciple whom Jesus loved was following??e who at the supper leaned back upon his breast and said, "Lord, who is to betray you?"

"Now this man bought a plot of ground with the price of his treachery, and falling there headlong he burst asunder and all his bowels gushed out.

and Annas, the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and all the members of the high priests family were present.

This aroused bitter indignation among the high priest and his followers who were of the sect of the Sadducees,

When they heard this they went at early dawn to the Temple, and began to teach. Meantime when the high priest and his followers arrived, they summoned the Sanhedrin and all the Council of the Elders of the sons of Israel, and sent to the prison to fetch the apostles.

When the officer in charge of the Temple and the high priest heard these words, they were perplexed concerning them, wondering what would come of it.

So they brought them, and stood them before the Sanhedrin. Then the high priest questioned them.

And the high priest said, "Are these things so?"

Meanwhile Saul, still breathing out threats of murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

and the priest of Zeus, whose temple was at the entrance to the city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and along with the crowds was about to offer sacrifices.

There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish high priest who used to do this.

"To this the high priest and all the council of elders are witnesses. It was from them that I received letters to the brothers in Damascus, and I was already on my way to bring those also who were there back to Jerusalem, in bonds, for punishment.

Then the High Priest Ananias ordered those who stood near Paul to strike him on the mouth.

"Do you rail at God's high priest?" said the bystanders.

"Brothers, I did not know that he was the high priest," exclaimed Paul, "for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of a ruler of my people."

Five days later, Ananias the high priest came down to Caesarea with some of the elders, and with an orator, named Tertullus. They laid information before the governor against Paul.

The high priest and the Jewish leaders laid charges against Paul before him.

But that the descendants of Israel, who were in pursuit of a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law?

Still I have written unto you the more boldly, in part, by way of reminding you, because of that gift of grace which God bestowed upon me, in making me a priest of Jesus Christ unto the Gentiles.

I act as priest of the gospel of God; so that the Gentiles, when offered before him, may be an acceptable sacrifice, because consecrated by the Holy Spirit.

And so it was necessary that he should in all points be made like his brothers, so that he might become a compassionate and faithful high priest, in all that relates to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

Therefore, holy brothers, comrades of a heavenly calling, fix your thoughts then upon Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession.

For every high priest chosen from time to time from among men is appointed on behalf of men, in matters relating to God, to offer both gifts and sacrifices on behalf of sins.

and again, Thou art a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.

while God himself pronounced him High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek.

whither Jesus himself is entered as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.

It was this Melchizedek, King of Salem and Priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him;

without father or mother, without lineage, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God, he remains a priest in perpetuity.

Now if there were perfection through the Levitical priesthood, (and it was under it that the people received the Law) why was it still necessary for another kind of priest to arise, after the order of Melchizedek, instead of being reckoned according to the order of Aaron?

And this is yet more abundantly clear if, after the likeness of Melchizedek, there arises another Priest,

For the words are in evidence, Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

For although those priests became such without an oath, He had an oath form God who said to him, The Lord hath sworn and will not change, Thou art a priest forever.

For we needed just such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens;

The pith of all that we have been saying is this; we do have such a High Priest; and he has taken his seat on the right hand of the throne of Majesty in the heavens,

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.

Now were he on earth, he would not even be a priest, since there are here those who present the gifts according to the Law??5 those priests who serve a mere outline and shadow of the heavenly reality, just as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to build the Tabernacle. "See", he says, "that you make everything on the pattern showed you on the mountain."

but into the inner tent the high priest only goes alone, once a year, and that not without blood, which he offers for himself and for the ignorances of the people.

But when Christ came, a High Priest of good things to come, he passed through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is to say, not of this material creation,

Nor did he enter to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest entered into the sanctuary, year after year, with blood that was not his own;

For while every priest stands, day after day, at his ministrations, and many times repeats the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins,

this Priest, after offering one Sacrifice for sins, sat down forever on God's right hand;

and since we have a great High Priest over the house of God;

For the bodies of the animals whose blood is carried by the High Priest into the Holy Place are burned outside the camp,

and in the midst of the candlesticks One like to a son of man, clothed with a robe down to the feet, and with a golden girdle round his breast.