'High priest' in the Bible

Then the high priests and the elders of the people met in the palace of the high priest who was called Caiaphas

One of his companions put out his hand, drew his sword, and struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his ear.

but those who had seized Jesus took him away to the house of Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and elders had gathered.

Peter followed him at a distance as far as the courtyard of the high priest, and when he got inside he sat down beside the attendants to see the end.

So the high priest rose and said to him, "Have you no reply to make? What of this evidence against you?"

Jesus said nothing. Then 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 dress and cried, "He has blasphemed! What more evidence do we want? Look, you have heard his blasphemy for yourselves!

He went into the house of God (Abiathar was high priest then) and ate the loaves of the Presence which no one except the priests is allowed to eat, and also shared them with his followers."

but one of the bystanders drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his ear.

They took Jesus away to the high priest, and all the high priests and scribes and elders met there with him.

Peter followed him at a distance till he got inside the courtyard of the high priest, where he sat down with the attendants to warm himself at the fire.

So the high priest rose in their midst and asked Jesus, "Have you no reply to make? What about this evidence against you?"

He said nothing and made no answer. Again the high priest put a question to him. "Are you the Christ?" he said, "the Son of the Blessed?"

Then the high priest tore his clothes and cried, "What more evidence do we want?

Now as Peter was downstairs in the courtyard, a maidservant of the high priest came along,

Then the high priest brought many accusations against him,

And one of them did strike the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear.

Then they arrested him and led him away inside the house of the high priest. Peter followed at a distance

But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said, "You know nothing about it ??50 you do not understand it is in your own interests that one man should die for the People, instead of the whole nation being destroyed."

(He did not say this simply of his own accord; he was high priest that year, and his words were a prophecy that Jesus was to die for the nation,

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his right ear (the servant's name was Malchus);

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

while Peter stood outside at the door. Then this other disciple, who was an acquaintance of the high priest, came out and spoke to the woman at the door, and brought Peter inside.

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

As he said this, one of the attendants who stood by gave him a blow, saying, "Is that how you answer the high priest?"

& 25] Simon Peter followed Jesus along with another disciple; and as this disciple was an acquaintance of the high priest, he passed into the courtyard of the high priest with Jesus,

Said one of the high priest's servants, a kinsman of the man whose ear had been cut off by Peter, "Did I not see you with him in the orchard?"

which was attended by the high priest Annas, by Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and all the members of the high priest's family.

This filled the high priest Annas and his allies, the Sadducean party, with bitter jealousy;

With these orders they went into the temple about dawn and proceeded to teach. Meantime the high priest and his allies met, called the Sanhedrin together and the council of seniors belonging to the sons of Israel, and then sent to prison for the men.

They conducted them before the Sanhedrin, and the high priest asked them,

Said the high priest, "Is this true?"

Meanwhile Saul still breathed threats of murder against the disciples of the Lord. He went to the high priest

The seven sons of Sceuas, a Jewish high priest, used to do this.

as the high priest and all the council of elders can testify. It was from them that I got letters to the brotherhood at Damascus, and then journeyed thither to bind those who had gathered there and bring them back to Jerusalem for punishment.

Then the high priest Ananias ordered those who were standing next Paul to strike him on the mouth.

The bystanders said, "What! would you rail at God's high priest?"

"Brothers," said Paul, "I did not know he was high priest" (for it is written, You must not speak evil of any ruler of your people).

Five days later down came the high priest Ananias with some elders and a barrister called Tertullus. They laid information before the governor against Paul.

He had to resemble his brothers in every respect, in order to prove a merciful and faithful high priest in things divine, to expiate the sins of the People.

Holy brothers, you who participate in a heavenly calling, look at Jesus then, at the apostle and high priest of our confession;

As we have a great high priest, then, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession;

for ours is no high priest who is incapable of sympathizing with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every respect like ourselves, yet without sinning.

Every high priest who is selected from men and appointed to act on behalf of men in things divine, offering gifts and sacrifices for sins,

being designated by God high priest with the rank of Melchizedek.

There Jesus entered for us in advance, when he became high priest for ever with the rank of Melchizedek.

Such was the high priest for us, saintly, innocent, unstained, lifted high above the heavens, far from all contact with the sinful,

The point of all this is, we do have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of Majesty in the heavens,

Now, as every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices, he too must have something to offer.

but the second tent is entered only once a year by the high priest alone ??and it must not be without blood, which he presents on behalf of himself and the errors of the People.

But when Christ arrived as the high priest of the bliss that was to be, he passed through the greater and more perfect tent which no hands had made (no part, that is to say, of the present order),

Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, like the high priest entering the holy place every year with blood that was not his own: ??26 for in that case he would have had to suffer repeatedly, ever since the world was founded. Nay, once for all, at the end of the world, he has appeared with his self-sacrifice to abolish sin.

For the bodies of the animals whose blood is taken into the holy Place by the high priest as a sin-offering, are burned outside the camp;