Matthew 2:4
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4 and calling together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Messiah[a] was to be born.
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- 2.4 Or the Christ
Acts 23:9
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9 Then a great clamor arose, and certain scribes of the Pharisees’ group stood up and contended, “We find nothing wrong with this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”(A)
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Acts 6:12
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12 They stirred up the people as well as the elders and the scribes; then they suddenly confronted him, seized him, and brought him before the council.
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Acts 4:5
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5 The next day their rulers, elders, and scribes assembled in Jerusalem,(A)
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John 18:3
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3 So Judas brought a detachment of soldiers together with police from the chief priests and the Pharisees, and they came there with lanterns and torches and weapons.(A)
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John 8:3
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3 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and, making her stand before all of them,
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John 7:32
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Officers Are Sent to Arrest Jesus
32 The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering such things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent temple police to arrest him.
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John 3:10
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10 Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things?
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Luke 23:10
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10 The chief priests and the scribes stood by vehemently accusing him.
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Luke 20:19
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19 When the scribes and chief priests realized that he had told this parable against them, they wanted to lay hands on him at that very hour, but they feared the people.(A)
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Mark 8:31
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Jesus Foretells His Death and Resurrection
31 Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes and be killed and after three days rise again.
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Matthew 27:1
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Jesus Brought before Pilate
27 When morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people conferred together against Jesus in order to bring about his death.
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Matthew 26:47
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The Betrayal and Arrest of Jesus
47 While he was still speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, arrived; with him was a large crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the elders of the people.
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Matthew 26:3
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3 Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the courtyard of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,(A)
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Matthew 21:23
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The Authority of Jesus Questioned
23 When he entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching and said, “By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?”(A)
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Matthew 21:15
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15 But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the amazing things that he did and heard[a] the children crying out in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they became angry(A)
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- 21.15 Gk lacks heard
Matthew 13:52
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52 And he said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has become a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a household who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.”
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Matthew 7:29
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29 for he taught them as one having authority and not as their scribes.
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Malachi 2:7
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7 For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.(A)
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Psalm 2:2
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2 The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers take counsel together,
against the Lord and his anointed, saying,(A)
Nehemiah 12:7
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7 Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the leaders of the priests and of their associates in the days of Jeshua.(A)
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Ezra 10:5
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5 Then Ezra stood up and made the leading priests, the Levites, and all Israel swear that they would do as had been said. So they swore.(A)
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Ezra 7:11-12
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The Letter of Artaxerxes to Ezra
11 This is a copy of the letter that King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest and scribe, a scholar of the words of the commandments of the Lord and his statutes for Israel: 12 “Artaxerxes, king of kings, to the priest Ezra, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven: Peace.[a] And now(A)
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- 7.12 Syr Vg: Aram Perfect
Ezra 7:6
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6 this Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe skilled in the law of Moses that the Lord the God of Israel had given, and the king granted him all that he asked, for the hand of the Lord his God was upon him.(A)
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2 Chronicles 36:14
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14 All the leading priests and the people also were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations, and they polluted the house of the Lord that he had consecrated in Jerusalem.
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