'Elders' in the Bible

So [when he] heard about Jesus, he sent Jewish elders to him, asking him that he would come [and] cure his slave.

saying, "It is necessary [for] the Son of Man to suffer many [things] and to be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and to be killed, and to be raised on the third day.

And it happened that on one of the days [while] he was teaching the people in the temple [courts] and proclaiming the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes approached together with the elders

And Jesus said to the chief priests and officers of the temple and elders who had come out against him, "Have you come out with swords and clubs, as against a robber?

And when day came, the council of elders of the people gathered, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away to their Sanhedrin,