'Chief priest' in the Bible
and Annas the chief priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the chief priest,
And having risen, the chief priest, and all those with him -- being the sect of the Sadducees -- were filled with zeal,
and having heard, they did enter at the dawn into the temple, and were teaching. And the chief priest having come, and those with him, they called together the sanhedrim and all the senate of the sons of Israel, and they sent to the prison to have them brought,
and having brought them, they set them in the sanhedrim, and the chief priest questioned them,
And Saul, yet breathing of threatening and slaughter to the disciples of the Lord, having gone to the chief priest,
and there were certain -- seven sons of Sceva, a Jew, a chief priest -- who are doing this thing;
as also the chief priest doth testify to me, and all the eldership; from whom also having received letters unto the brethren, to Damascus, I was going on, to bring also those there bound to Jerusalem that they might be punished,
and the chief priest Ananias commanded those standing by him to smite him on the mouth,
And those who stood by said, 'The chief priest of God dost thou revile?'
and Paul said, 'I did not know, brethren, that he is chief priest: for it hath been written, Of the ruler of thy people thou shalt not speak evil;'
And after five days came down the chief priest Ananias, with the elders, and a certain orator -- Tertullus, and they made manifest to the governor the things against Paul;
and the chief priest and the principal men of the Jews made manifest to him the things against Paul, and were calling on him,