'Chief Priest' in the Bible

He told them that the Son of Man must undergo much suffering, and be rejected by the Councillors, and Chief Priests, and Teachers of the Law, and be put to death, and rise on the third day.

Jesus continued to teach each day in the Temple Courts; but the Chief Priests and Teachers of the Law were eager to take his life, and so also were the leading men.

On one of these days, when Jesus was teaching the people in the Temple Courts and telling the Good News, the Chief Priests and the Teachers of the Law, joined by the Councillors, confronted him,

After this the Teachers of the Law and the Chief Priest were eager to lay hands on Jesus then and there, but they were afraid of the people; for they saw that it was at them that he had aimed this parable.

The Chief Priest and the Teachers of the Law were looking for an opportunity of destroying Jesus, for they were afraid of the people.

And he went and discussed with the Chief Priests and Officers in charge at the Temple the best way of betraying Jesus to them.

Then, turning to the Chief Priests and Officers in charge at the Temple and Councillors, who had come for him, he said: "Have you come out, as if after a robber, with swords and clubs?

At daybreak the National Council met--both the Chief Priests and the Teachers of the Law--and took Jesus before their High Council.

But Pilate, turning to the Chief Priests and the people, said: "I do not see anything to find fault with in this man."

Meanwhile the Chief Priests and the Teachers of the Law stood by and vehemently accused him.

So Pilate summoned the Chief Priests, and the leading men, and the people,

And how the Chief Priests and our leading men gave him up to be sentenced to death, and afterwards crucified him.