Quotes about High Priest

Then Annas sent Him, still bound, to Caiaphas the high priest.

One of the high priest’s servants, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked, “Didn’t I see you with Him in the garden?”

along with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and many others from the high priest’s family.

Then the high priest and all his associates, who belonged to the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy. They went out

At daybreak the apostles entered the temple courts as they had been told and began to teach the people. When the high priest and his associates arrived, they convened the Sanhedrin—the full assembly of the elders of Israel—and sent to the jail for the apostles.

They brought them in and made them stand before the Sanhedrin, where the high priest interrogated them.

Then the high priest asked Stephen, “Are these charges true?”

Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord. He approached the high priest

as the high priest and the whole Council can testify about me. I even obtained letters from them to their brothers in Damascus, and I was on my way to apprehend these people and bring them to Jerusalem to be punished.

At this, the high priest Ananias ordered those standing near Paul to strike him on the mouth.

“Brothers,” Paul replied, “I was not aware that he was the high priest, for it is written: ‘Do not speak evil about the ruler of your people.’”

Five days later the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and a lawyer named Tertullus, who presented to the governor their case against Paul.