'Chief' in the Bible

And a holiday being come, when Herod, on his birthday, made a supper to his grandees, and to the chiliarchs, and the chief men of Galilee;

And he began to teach them that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and of the chief priests and of the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall be delivered up to the chief priests and to the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him up to the nations:

And the chief priests and the scribes heard it, and they sought how they might destroy him; for they feared him, because all the crowd were astonished at his doctrine.

And they come again to Jerusalem. And as he walked about in the temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders come to him,

Now the passover and the feast of unleavened bread was after two days. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they might seize him by subtlety and kill him.

And Judas Iscariote, one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests that he might deliver him up to them;

And immediately, while he was yet speaking, Judas comes up, being one of the twelve, and with him a great crowd, with swords and sticks, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.

And they led away Jesus to the high priest. And there come together to him all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes.

And the chief priests and the whole sanhedrim sought testimony against Jesus to cause him to be put to death, and did not find any.

And immediately in the morning the chief priests, having taken counsel with the elders and scribes and the whole sanhedrim, bound Jesus and carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.

And the chief priests accused him urgently.

for he knew that the chief priests had delivered him up through envy.

But the chief priests stirred up the crowd that he might rather release Barabbas to them.

In like manner the chief priests also, with the scribes, mocking with one another, said, He saved others; himself he cannot save.