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The authority of Jesus is questioned whilst he is teaching in the Temple in Jerusalem, as reported in all three synoptic gospels: Matthew 21:23–27, Mark 11:27–33 and Luke 20:1–8. [1] According to the Gospel of Matthew: Jesus entered the temple courts, and, while he was teaching, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him.
And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born. The World English Bible translates the passage as: Gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked them where the Christ would be born. [a] The Novum Testamentum Graece text is:
Immediately, in the morning, the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council; and they bound Jesus, led Him away, and delivered Him to Pilate. [ 3 ] In the previous chapter , Mark has stressed that "all the chief priests, the elders, and the scribes", "all the council", had taken part in the overnight ...
In the Second Temple period, the Sanhedrian members were called "elders," [23] a high priest was a "chief priest," [24] and the successors of Ezra the scribe - who became teachers of the law in those days - were called the "scribes." [25] [26] John 18 relate that Jesus was tried by the two chief priests at the time, Annas and Caiaphas. [27]
Matthew 27:1. "The chief priests and elders of the people before Pontius Pilate". Biblical illustrations by Jim Padgett. Matthew 27:1 is the first verse of the twenty-seventh chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. This verse begins the chapter on the trial and crucifixion of Jesus.
Matthew 26 (Matthew 26:57) states that Jesus was taken to the house of Caiaphas the High Priest of Israel, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together. Mark 14 states that Jesus was taken that night "to the high priest" (without naming the priest), where all the chief priests and the elders gathered.
Jesus is taken to the chief priests, elders, and teachers. This body was not fixed during Jesus' time, but usually an ad hoc gathering of aristocrats and important religious officials (Brown 146). This occurs in Mark at the high priest's house. There were about eight chief priests and several more elders and teachers and scribes.
Roman soldiers play no part until they are sent by Pilate, at the request of the Jewish authorities, to provide the guard at the tomb of Jesus. The villians of the piece throughout are 'the Jews' – more particularly, the chief priests and the scribes. It is they who condemn Jesus to death and abuse him; it is they who crucify him and share ...