with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, and Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly family.

The Apostles Are Persecuted

Then the high priest took action; he and all who were with him (that is, the sect of the Sadducees), being filled with jealousy,

When they heard this, they entered the temple at daybreak and went on with their teaching. When the high priest and those with him arrived, they called together the council and the whole body of the elders of Israel and sent to the prison to have them brought.

When they had brought them, they had them stand before the council. The high priest questioned them,

Stephen’s Speech to the Council

Then the high priest asked him, “Are these things so?”

The Conversion of Saul

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

Seven sons of a Jewish high priest named Sceva were doing this.

as the high priest and the whole council of elders can testify about me. From them I also received letters to the brothers in Damascus, and I went there in order to bind those who were there and to bring them back to Jerusalem for punishment.

Then the high priest Ananias ordered those standing near him to strike him on the mouth.

Those standing nearby said, “Do you dare to insult God’s high priest?”

And Paul said, “I did not realize, brothers, that he was high priest, for it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil of a leader of your people.’ ”

Paul before Felix at Caesarea

Five days later the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and an attorney, a certain Tertullus, and they reported their case against Paul to the governor.