'Rulers' in the Bible

And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, just as your rulers did also.

And it happened that on the next day, their rulers and elders and scribes came together in Jerusalem,

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, "Rulers of the people and elders,

The kings of the earth stood opposed, and the rulers assembled together at the same [place], against the Lord and against his Christ.'

So after the reading from the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent [word] to them, saying, "Men [and] brothers, if there is any message of exhortation by you for the people, say [it]."

For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, [because they] did not recognize this one, and the voices of the prophets that are read on every Sabbath, fulfilled [them] [by] condemning [him].

So when an inclination took place [on the part] of both the Gentiles and the Jews, together with their rulers, to mistreat [them] and to stone them,

But [when] her owners saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas [and] dragged [them] into the marketplace before the rulers.