'High Priest' in the Bible

When he had entered the Temple courts, and was teaching, the high priests and elders of the people came to him and asked him, "By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?"

Then the chief priests and the elders of the people met together in the court of the palace of the high priest who was called Caiaphas,

And, behold, one of these who were with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword, and smote the slave of the high priest, and cut off his ear.

Then all his disciples forsook him and fled; but those who had apprehended Jesus led him away to Caiaphas, the high priest, where the scribes and the elders had assembled.

Now Peter was following him, afar off, as far as the courtyard of the high priest; and when he got in, he was sitting with the officers, to see the end.

Rising to his feet the high priest asked Jesus. "Do you make no answer? What is it that these are testifying against you?"

But Jesus kept silence. Again the high priest addressed him, "I adjure you by the Living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God!"

Then the high priest tore his garments, saying. "He has spoken blasphemy! What further need have we of witnesses? For behold, now you have heard his blasphemy!

Now while they were on their way, some of the guard went into the city and told the high priest all that had happened.

"See," said he, "we are going up to Jerusalem and the Son of man will be betrayed to the high priests and the Scribes. They will condemn him to death, and will hand him over to the Gentiles,

Once more they came into Jerusalem; and as he was walking in the Temple courts, there came to him the high priests and Scribes and elders and asked him.

Now Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went away to the high priests to betray Jesus to them;

At that instant, while he was yet speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, came up, and with him a mob armed with swords and clubs, sent by the high priests and Scribes and elders.

But one of the bystanders drew his sword, and struck the slave of the high priest, and cut off his ear.

Then they took Jesus to the high priest, and all the chief priests and elders and Scribes came with him.

Peter also had followed Jesus at a distance, until he was inside the court of the high priest. There he was sitting among the officers, warming himself in the light of the fire.

Meanwhile the high priests and all of the Sanhedrin were trying to get evidence against Jesus, so as to have him put to death, but they found none;

Then the high priest rose and stood forth among them. "Have you no answer to make?" he asked Jesus; "What is it that these testify against you?"

But he remained silent, and answered nothing. Again the high priest questioned him. "Are you the Christ," he said, "the Son of the Blessed?"

Then the high priest tore his vestments. "Why do we need any further witness?" he exclaimed.

Now while Peter was below in the courtyard, there came one of the maid servants of the high priest, and saw Peter warming himself.

As soon as it was down, after the high priests had conferred with the elders and the whole Sanhedrin, they bound Jesus, and took him away, and handed him over to Pilate.

For he recognized that it was through spite that the high priests had handed him over.

In the same way the high priests also, as well as the Scribes, kept on mocking him to themselves. "He saved others," they said, "but himself he cannot save.

during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zachariah, in the Desert.

and he said, "The Son of man must suffer much, and be restricted by the elders and high priests and scribes and be put to death, and on the third day be raised again."

Day after day he continued to teach in the Temple. The high priests and scribes tried to have him put to death, so did the rulers of the people.

At this the Scribes and the high priests were seeking to arrest him; only they were afraid of the people. For they perceived that he had referred to them in this parable.

The high priest and the Scribes continually sought means to put him to death.

Then one of them did strike a blow at the high priest's slave, and cut off his right ear.

So they seized him and led him away, and took him to the house of the high priest; while Peter was following him a long way off.

When it became the day the elders if the people met with the high priests and the Scribes and had brought before the Sanhedrin, saying.

Meanwhile the high priests and Scribes were standing around, and continually making accusations to him against him.

"and how our high priest and ruler delivered him to be condemned to death and crucified him.

The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about him, and the high priest and Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

But one of their number, Caiaphas by name, who was high priest that year, said to them,

now he did not say this of his own accord; but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die in behalf of the nation,

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it, and striking at the high priest's slave, cut off his right ear.

and led him to Annas first. (For Annas was the Father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was the high priest that year??14 the Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it was for their advantage that one man should die for the people.)

Meanwhile Simon Peter was following Jesus, and so was another disciple who was known to the high priest, and they went in with Jesus into the court of the high priest's palace.

But Peter took his stand outside, near the door. So the other disciple who was known to the high priest came out and spoke to the doorkeeper and brought Peter in.

Then the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.

When he had spoken these words, one of the police standing by gave him a blow with his hand, saying as he did so, "Is that the way you answer the high priest?"

Then Annas sent him in chains to Caiaphas, the high priest.

One of the slaves of the high priest, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Did not I myself see you with him in the garden."

"I am not a Jew, am I?" replied Pilate; "It is your own nation and the high priests who have handed you over to me. What have you done?"

So the high priests of the Jews said to Pilate, "Do not write 'King of the Jews,' but 'He said, I am King of the Jews.'"

and Annas, the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and all the members of the high priests family were present.

As soon as the apostles were released, they went to their friends, and told what the high priests and elders had said.

This aroused bitter indignation among the high priest and his followers who were of the sect of the Sadducees,

When they heard this they went at early dawn to the Temple, and began to teach. Meantime when the high priest and his followers arrived, they summoned the Sanhedrin and all the Council of the Elders of the sons of Israel, and sent to the prison to fetch the apostles.

When the officer in charge of the Temple and the high priest heard these words, they were perplexed concerning them, wondering what would come of it.

So they brought them, and stood them before the Sanhedrin. Then the high priest questioned them.

And the high priest said, "Are these things so?"

Meanwhile Saul, still breathing out threats of murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

His hearers were all astonished, and began to say. "Is not this the very man who in Jerusalem made havoc of those who called upon the Name? Did he not come hither for the express purpose of carrying them all in chains to the high priests?"

There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish high priest who used to do this.

"To this the high priest and all the council of elders are witnesses. It was from them that I received letters to the brothers in Damascus, and I was already on my way to bring those also who were there back to Jerusalem, in bonds, for punishment.

Then the High Priest Ananias ordered those who stood near Paul to strike him on the mouth.

"Do you rail at God's high priest?" said the bystanders.

"Brothers, I did not know that he was the high priest," exclaimed Paul, "for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of a ruler of my people."

They went to the high priests and elders, and said to them. "We have bound ourselves by a solemn oath to eat nothing until we have killed Paul.

Five days later, Ananias the high priest came down to Caesarea with some of the elders, and with an orator, named Tertullus. They laid information before the governor against Paul.

The high priest and the Jewish leaders laid charges against Paul before him.

And so it was necessary that he should in all points be made like his brothers, so that he might become a compassionate and faithful high priest, in all that relates to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

Therefore, holy brothers, comrades of a heavenly calling, fix your thoughts then upon Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession.

For every high priest chosen from time to time from among men is appointed on behalf of men, in matters relating to God, to offer both gifts and sacrifices on behalf of sins.

while God himself pronounced him High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek.

For we needed just such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens;

one who has no need, like the high priests, to offer up daily sacrifices, first for his own sins, then for those of the people. For his sacrifice was made once for all, when he offered up himself.

For the Law appoints human beings to be high priests, men with all their weakness; but the word of the oath, which was later than the Law, appoints a Son, perfected forevermore.

The pith of all that we have been saying is this; we do have such a High Priest; and he has taken his seat on the right hand of the throne of Majesty in the heavens,

For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices; whence it follows that this High Priest also must have some offering to make.

but into the inner tent the high priest only goes alone, once a year, and that not without blood, which he offers for himself and for the ignorances of the people.

But when Christ came, a High Priest of good things to come, he passed through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is to say, not of this material creation,

Nor did he enter to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest entered into the sanctuary, year after year, with blood that was not his own;

and since we have a great High Priest over the house of God;

For the bodies of the animals whose blood is carried by the High Priest into the Holy Place are burned outside the camp,