⁵⁹ Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;

⁴⁷ Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.

²¹ And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

²⁷ And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them,

³⁴ Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space;

⁴¹ And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.

¹² And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council,