Peter and John Arrested

As they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,

and Annas the high priest was there, and Caiaphas, John, and Alexander, and all who were of high-priestly descent.

When they had been released, they went to their own companions and reported everything that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

Imprisonment and Release

But the high priest stood up, along with all his associates (that is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy.

Upon hearing this, they entered into the temple area about daybreak and began to teach. Now when the high priest and his associates came, they called the Council together, that is, all the Senate of the sons of Israel, and sent orders to the prison for them to be brought.

Now when the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests heard these words, they were greatly perplexed about them as to what would come of this.

When they had brought them, they had them stand before the Council. The high priest interrogated them,

The word of God kept spreading; and the number of the disciples continued to increase greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests were becoming obedient to the faith.

Stephen’s Defense

Now the high priest said, “Are these things so?”

The Conversion of Saul

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

and here he has authority from the chief priests to arrest all who call on Your name.”

All those hearing him continued to be amazed, and were saying, “Is this not the one who in Jerusalem destroyed those who called on this name, and had come here for the purpose of bringing them bound before the chief priests?”

Moreover, the priest of Zeus, whose temple was just outside the city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and wanted to offer sacrifice with the crowds.

Now there were seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, doing this.

as also the high priest and all the Council of the elders can testify. From them I also received letters to the brothers, and started off for Damascus in order to bring even those who were there to Jerusalem as prisoners to be punished.

Now on the next day, wanting to know for certain why Paul had been accused by the Jews, he released him and ordered the chief priests and all the Council to assemble, and he brought Paul down and placed him before them.

But the high priest Ananias commanded those standing beside him to strike him on the mouth.

But those present said, “Are you insulting God’s high priest?”

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

They came to the chief priests and the elders and said, “We have put ourselves under an oath to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.

Paul before Felix

Now after five days the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and an attorney named Tertullus, and they brought charges against Paul to the governor.

And the chief priests and the leading men of the Jews brought charges against Paul, and they were pleading with Festus,

and when I was in Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews brought charges against him, asking for a sentence of condemnation against him.

And this is just what I did in Jerusalem; not only did I lock up many of the saints in prisons, after receiving authority from the chief priests, but I also cast my vote against them when they were being put to death.

“While so engaged, as I was journeying to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests,