'Authorities' in the Bible

Then Jesus told him, "See to it that you don't speak to anyone. Instead, go and show yourself to the priest, and then offer the sacrifice that Moses commanded as proof to the authorities."

He told the man, "Be sure that you don't tell anyone. Instead, go and show yourself to the priest, and then offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded as proof to the authorities."

Then Jesus ordered him, "Don't tell anyone. Instead, go and show yourself to the priest and make an offering for your cleansing, just as Moses commanded, as proof to the authorities."

When people bring you before synagogue leaders, rulers, or authorities, don't worry about how you will defend yourselves or what you will say,

And look, he is speaking in public, and they are not saying anything to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Messiah?

None of the authorities or Pharisees has believed in him, have they?

Yet many people, even some of the authorities, believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not admit it so they would not be thrown out of the synagogue.

Now when an attempt was made by both gentiles and Jews, along with their authorities, to mistreat and stone them,

When her owners realized that their hope of making money was gone, they grabbed Paul and Silas and dragged them before the authorities who met together in the public square.

"Therefore," he said, "have your authorities come down with me and present their charges against him there, if there is anything wrong with the man."

Every person must be subject to the governing authorities, for no authority exists except by God's permission. The existing authorities have been established by God,

so that whoever resists the authorities opposes what God has established, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves.

For the authorities are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you like to live without being afraid of the authorities? Then do what is right, and you will receive their approval.

But if you do what is wrong, you should be afraid, for it is not without reason that they bear the sword. Indeed, they are God's servants to administer punishment to anyone who does wrong. Therefore, it is necessary for you to be acquiescent to the authorities, not only for the sake of God's punishment, but also for the sake of your own conscience.

He did this so that now, through the church, the wisdom of God in all its variety might be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realm

For our struggle is not against human opponents, but against rulers, authorities, cosmic powers in the darkness around us, and evil spiritual forces in the heavenly realm.

And when he had disarmed the rulers and the authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in the cross.

Remind believers to submit to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, and to be ready to do any honorable kind of work.

who has gone to heaven and is at the right hand of God, where angels, authorities, and powers have been made subject to him.