'Chief priest' in the Bible
Then the chief priests and the elders of the people were assembled in the court of the chief priest, who was called Caiaphas,
And behold, one of those with Jesus, stretching out his hand, drew his sword, and striking the servant of the chief priest cut off his ear.
And having taken Jesus, they led him away to Caiaphas, the chief priest, where the scribes and elders were assembled.
But Peter followed him at a distance, even to the court of the chief priest, and going in sat with the officers to see the end.
And the chief priest rising up said to him, Do you answer nothing? What do these testify against you?
But Jesus was silent. And the chief priest answering, said to him, I adjure you, by the living God, to tell me if you are the Christ, the Son of God.
Then the chief priest rent his clothes, saying, He has blasphemed; what further need have we of witnesses? Behold, now you have heard the blasphemy.
How he entered into the house of God under Abiathar the chief priest, and eat the show bread, which it was not lawful to eat, except for the priests, and gave also to them that were with him?
And one of those who stood by drew a sword and struck the servant of the chief priest, and cut off his car.
AND they led away Jesus to the chief priest; and all the chief priests, and elders, and scribes came together to him.
And Peter followed him at a distance, till he came into the court of the chief priest; and he sat with the officers and warmed himself before the light.
And the chief priest standing up in the midst asked Jesus, saying, Do you not answer any thing to what these testify against you?
And he was silent, and answered nothing. Again the chief priest asked him, and said to him, Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?
And Peter being in the court below, one of the female servants of the chief priest came,
under the chief priest Annas, and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zachariah, in the wilderness.
And one of them struck the servant of the chief priest, and took off his right ear.
And apprehending him, they led him away, and conducted him to the house of the chief priest; and Peter followed at a distance.
And one of them, Caiaphas, being chief priest that year, said to them, You know nothing at all,
This he said not of himself, but being chief priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for the nation;
Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it and struck the servant of the chief priest, and cut off his right ear; and the name of the servant was Malchus.
and led him away to Annas first; for he was father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was chief priest that year;
But Simon Peter followed Jesus, and the other disciple; and that disciple was known to the chief priest, and went in with Jesus to the chief priest's court;
but Peter stood at the door without. Then the other disciple who was known to the chief priest went out and spoke to the door-keeper, and brought in Peter.
Then the chief priest asked Jesus of his disciples, and his teaching.
He having said these things, one of the officers who stood by gave Jesus a blow, saying, Do you answer the chief priest thus?
Then Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas the chief priest.
One of the servants of the chief priest, being a relation of him whose ear Peter cut off, said, Did I not see you in the garden with him?
assembled at Jerusalem, and Annas the chief priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and all that were of the family of the chief priesthood,
And the chief priest arose, and all those with him, being the sect of the Sadducees, and were filled with wrath,
And hearing this they entered into the temple early in the morning and taught. And the chief priest coming, and those with him, called the Sanhedrim together, and all the eldership of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.
and having brought them they placed them before the Sanhedrim. And the chief priest asked them,
BUT Saul, yet breathing out threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the chief priest
And there were some seven sons of Sceva, a Jew, a chief priest, who did this.
as the chief priest also bears me witness, and all the eldership, from whom also receiving letters to the brothers I went to Damascus, to bring those who were there bound to Jerusalem to be punished.
And the chief priest Ananias commanded those standing by to strike him on the mouth.
And those standing by said, Do you revile God's chief priest?
And Paul said, I knew not brothers that he was a chief priest; for it is written, You shall not speak evil of the ruler of your people.
AND after five days the chief priest Ananias, with the elders, and a certain orator, Tertullus, went down and gave information to the procurator against Paul.
Whence he ought in all things to be assimilated to the brothers, that he may be a merciful and faithful chief priest as to things relating to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
Whence, holy brothers, partakers of the heavenly call, consider the apostle and chief priest of our profession, Jesus,
HAVING therefore a great chief priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast the profession.
For we have not a chief priest who cannot sympathise with our infirmities, but one tried in all respects as we are, without sin.
For every chief priest taken from men is appointed in behalf of men over things relating to God, that he may offer gifts and sacrifices for sins,
So also Christ did not put on himself the honor of being made a chief priest, but he that said to him, Thou art my Son, to-day have I begotten thee;
being called by God a chief priest after the order of Melchisedec.
where our forerunner Jesus entered, made after the order of Melchisedec a chief priest forever.
For such a chief priest also was suitable for us, holy, harmless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens,
BUT the chief thing in addition to what has been said is, that we have such a chief priest who sat on the right hand of the throne of the majesty in the heavens,
For every chief priest is constituted to offer gifts and sacrifices, whence it was necessary that this man also should have something to offer.
but into the second once a year only the chief priest [enters], not without blood, which he offers for his errors and those of the people,
But Christ having come, a chief priest of the good times that were to come, with a greater and a more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,
not that he may often present himself, as the chief priest enters into the sanctuary once a year with the blood of another [being];
For the bodies of those animals whose blood is carried into the sanctuary by the chief priest are burnt without the encampment.