'Chief Priests and Elders' in the Bible

And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them.

And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul.

concerning whom, I being in Jerusalem, the chief priests and elders of the Jews appeared before me, asking condemnation against him;