'Chief' in the Bible

When daylight came, the elders of the people, both the chief priests and the scribes, convened and brought Him before their Sanhedrin.

Pilate then told the chief priests and the crowds, “I find no grounds for charging this man.”

The chief priests and the scribes stood by, vehemently accusing Him.

Pilate called together the chief priests, the leaders, and the people,

and how our chief priests and leaders handed Him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified Him.

Then He said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the chief servant.” And they did.

When the chief servant tasted the water (after it had become wine), he did not know where it came from—though the servants who had drawn the water knew. He called the groom

The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about Him, so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple police to arrest Him.

Then the temple police came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why haven’t you brought Him?”

So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we going to do since this man does many signs?

The chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where He was, he should report it so they could arrest Him.

Therefore the chief priests decided to kill Lazarus also

So Judas took a company of soldiers and some temple police from the chief priests and the Pharisees and came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.

“I’m not a Jew, am I?” Pilate replied. “Your own nation and the chief priests handed You over to me. What have You done?”

When the chief priests and the temple police saw Him, they shouted, “Crucify! Crucify!”Pilate responded, “Take Him and crucify Him yourselves, for I find no grounds for charging Him.”

But they shouted, “Take Him away! Take Him away! Crucify Him!”Pilate said to them, “Should I crucify your king?”“We have no king but Caesar!” the chief priests answered.

So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Don’t write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that He said, ‘I am the King of the Jews.’”

After they were released, they went to their own people and reported everything the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

As the commander of the temple police and the chief priests heard these things, they were baffled about them, as to what could come of this.

And he has authority here from the chief priests to arrest all who call on Your name.”

But all who heard him were astounded and said, “Isn’t this the man who, in Jerusalem, was destroying those who called on this name and then came here for the purpose of taking them as prisoners to the chief priests?”

Bringing them before the chief magistrates, they said, “These men are seriously disturbing our city. They are Jews

Then the mob joined in the attack against them, and the chief magistrates stripped off their clothes and ordered them to be beaten with rods.

When daylight came, the chief magistrates sent the police to say, “Release those men!”

Seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this.

The next day, since he wanted to find out exactly why Paul was being accused by the Jews, he released him and instructed the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin to convene. Then he brought Paul down and placed him before them. >

These men went to the chief priests and elders and said, “We have bound ourselves under a solemn curse that we won’t eat anything until we have killed Paul.

Then the chief priests and the leaders of the Jews presented their case against Paul to him; and they appealed,

When I was in Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews presented their case and asked for a judgment against him.

I actually did this in Jerusalem, and I locked up many of the saints in prison, since I had received authority for that from the chief priests. When they were put to death, I cast my vote against them.

“I was traveling to Damascus under these circumstances with authority and a commission from the chief priests.

And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory.