'Rulers' in the Bible

'And you, Bethlehem, land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah, for from you will go out a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.'"

[As] he was saying these [things] to them, behold, one of the rulers came [and] knelt down before him, saying, "My daughter has just now died, but come, place your hand on her and she will live!"

But Jesus called them to himself [and] said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those in high positions exercise authority over them.

And one of the rulers of the synagogue came--Jairus by name--and [when he] saw him, he fell down at his feet.

He has brought down rulers from [their] thrones, and has exalted the lowly.

But when they bring you before the synagogues and the rulers and the authorities, do not be anxious how or what you should speak in your own defense or what you should say,

So Pilate called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people

And the people stood there watching, but the rulers also ridiculed [him], saying, "He saved others; let him save himself, if this [man] is the Christ of God, the Chosen One!"

and how our chief priests and rulers handed him over to a sentence of death, and crucified him.

And behold, he is speaking openly and they are saying nothing to him! Can it be that the rulers truly know that this man is the Christ?

{None} of the rulers or of the Pharisees have believed in him, [have they]?

Yet despite that, even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess [it], so that they would not be expelled from the synagogue.

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.

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

For rulers are not a [cause of] terror for a good deed, but for bad [conduct]. So do you want not to be afraid of authority? Do what [is] good, and you will have praise from it,

Now we do speak wisdom among the mature, but wisdom not of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are perishing,

which none of the rulers of this age knew. For if they had known [it], they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

in order that the many-sided wisdom of God might be made known now to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly [places] through the church,

because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual [forces] of wickedness in the heavenly [places].

because all [things] in the heavens and on the earth were created by him, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers, all [things] were created through him and for him,

[When he] had disarmed the rulers and the authorities, he made a display of [them] in public, triumphing over them by it.

Remind them to be subject to the rulers [and] to the authorities, to obey, to be prepared for every good work,