15 occurrences

'Council' in the Bible

but having commanded them to go out of the council they conferred with one another,

And when they heard it, they entered very early into the temple and taught. And when the high priest was come, and they that were with him, they called together the council and all the elderhood of the sons of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

And they bring them and set them in the council. And the high priest asked them,

But a certain man, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, held in honour of all the people, rose up in the council, and commanded to put the men out for a short while,

And they roused the people, and the elders, and the scribes. And coming upon him they seized him and brought him to the council.

And all who sat in the council, looking fixedly on him, saw his face as the face of an angel.

And on the morrow, desirous to know the certainty of the matter why he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him, and commanded the chief priests and all the council to meet, and having brought Paul down set him before them.

And Paul, fixing his eyes on the council, said, Brethren, I have walked in all good conscience with God unto this day.

But Paul, knowing that the one part of them were of the Sadducees and the other of the Pharisees, cried out in the council, Brethren, I am a Pharisee, son of Pharisees: I am judged concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead.

Now therefore do ye with the council make a representation to the chiliarch so that he may bring him down to you, as about to determine more precisely what concerns him, and we, before he draws near, are ready to kill him.

And he said, The Jews have agreed together to make a request to thee, that thou mayest bring Paul down to-morrow into the council, as about to inquire something more precise concerning him.

And desiring to know the charge on which they accused him, I brought him down to their council;

or let these themselves say what wrong they found in me when I stood before the council,

Then Festus, having conferred with the council, answered, Thou hast appealed to Caesar. To Caesar shalt thou go.

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συμβούλιον 
Sumboulion 
Usage: 8

συνέδριον 
sunedrion 
Usage: 19