'Rulers' in the Bible

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.