Sentences with phrase «chief priest»

Legend has it that when Ngatoirangi, the chief priest of the Arawa people, first saw the area, it was barren and he wondered how people could live there.

Along the way, Erickson encounters spiritual leaders who include the chief priest of the Icelandic pagan religion of Asatru, a Trappist monk at Thomas Merton's Gethsemani Abbey, and a Lakota retreat director at South Dakota's Bear Butte.

The island's chief priest Takayuki Ashizu said that even if Okinoshima becomes a heritage site, they will still not open it to the public that mostly come for the purpose of curiosity.

The chief priest and Pharisees, it seems, did not allow the observance of the Sabbath to interfere with taking precautions against a possible fraud by Jesus» disciples.

Among their titles had been pontifex maximus («chief priest») of the official cults.

The monarchs in general either kept conveniently available a group of spiritual advisers or else paid such respect to the views of the hierarchy as to elevate the chief priest virtually into an important minister of the state.

He admits aloud that he is «tops at being a chief priest» but that his life is empty.

Indeed, to the end, the supremacy of the monarchy appears to have been undisputed; even the law - abiding Josiah gave orders to the chief priest and was obeyed (II Kings 22:3 - 7, 12).

Mary's cousin was the wife of a chief priest.

«After Jesus» failure and death, his disciples stole his body and declared his resurrection in order to maintain their financial security and ensure themselves some standing» So let me get this strait, the disciples slip past the awake guards and the chief priest that gather, remove a large stone without making enough noise to wake those who were already awake.

You will recall that Judas in remorse tried to return the thirty pieces of silver, cut the chief priest would not accept them.

Later, when David became king, he had «Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar» as priests at his court; yet at the end of his reign the chief priest was Abiathar.

If this is your criteria then you must be the chief priest Hick.

And as he spoke, a crowd armed with swords and clubs came from the chief priest and scribes and elders, with Judas at their head.

Now the Festival of Unleavened Bread, called the Passover, was approaching, and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were looking for some way to get rid of Jesus, for they were afraid of the people.Then Satan entered Judas,

Meanwhile, the guards relate their story to the elders and the chief priests who bribe them to lie and say that the disciples took Jesus» body away.

6And the chief priests took the pieces of silver and said, «It is not lawful to put them into the temple treasury, since it is the price of blood.»

Fulfillment: Matthew 27:41 - 43 In the same way the chief priests also, along with the scribes and elders, were mocking Him, and saying, 42 «He saved others; He can not save Himself.

Fulfillment: Matthew 26:59 - 60 Now the chief priests and the whole Council kept trying to obtain false testimony against Jesus, in order that they might put Him to death; and they did not find any, even though many false witnesses came forward.

Fulfillment: Matthew 26:14 - 15 Then one of the twelve, named Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests, 15 and said, «What are you willing to give me to deliver Him up to you?»

; geography and ethnicity («if he's from Galilee, it isn't valid); government authorities (the temple police don't know what to do with him); religious and spiritual authorities (the chief priests rule him out); legal authorities (Pharisees); and tradition or historical authority («No one's ever talked like this before»).

* Mark 10:33 Saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles: * Matthew 12:18 I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles.

* St. John 11:47 - 48 Then gathered the chief priests, and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we?

While Pilate and the chief priests conspired to solve their mutual problem while managing to remain enemies, Jesus stood at the center of the stage like a mirror in which...

And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people: And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him.

So the chief priests planned to put him to death, because on account of him many were going away and believing in Jesus.

From that time on Jesus began to explain to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that He must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.

And he began to teach them that the Son of man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed and after three days rise again.

The chief priests and the scribes knew the answer to that question — it was the son who headed for the fields.

Or what if he had succumbed to pneumonia on the day he was to betray Jesus, and the chief priests went ahead without Judas's testimony, which obviously they didn't need?

«From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.

He therefore summoned «the chief priests and the rulers and the people,» announced that he had found Jesus innocent of any capital offense, and proposed therefore to chastise and release him.

though according to Mark and Matthew the crowds came from the chief priests and elders.

Luke says, «to the chief priests and officers of the temple and elders, who had come out against him.»

In spite of the hour, Jesus was brought before the high priest and the chief priests, elders, and scribes, who were already assembled (Mk 14:53 - 54; Mt 26:57 - 58; Lk 22:54 - 55).

When Pilate told «the chief priests and the multitudes» that he did not find the prisoner guilty of any crime, they insisted that Jesus had been stirring up the people from Galilee to Jerusalem.

Questions on the Crucifixion story: «Likewise also the chief priests mocking said among themselves with the scribes, He saved others; himself he can not save.»

The chief priests used the money to buy a field known as the potter's field, but the people of Jerusalem named it Akeldama, meaning in Aramaic «Field of Blood.»

when «the elders of the people both chief priests and scribes,» assembled and «led him away to their council» (v 66).

The chief priests and scribes will condemn him to death.

12When the chief priests had met with the elders and devised a plan, they gave the soldiers a large sum of money, 13telling them, «You are to say, «His disciples came during the night and stole him away while we were asleep.»

Moreover, they were told to real individuals with equally dense histories — to a man «desiring to justify himself,» chief priests and Pharisees, a rich man, and so on.

He motions the twelve aside and explains one last time: «See, we are going to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death; then they will hand him over to the Gentiles; they will mock him, and spit upon him, and flog him, and kill him; and after three days he will rise again.»

Jesus responded with an admonition to tell no one and then told the disciples «that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.»

«Likewise also the chief priests mocking said among themselves with the scribes, He saved others; himself he can not save.»

In Mark's gospel, immediately after Peter had confessed that Jesus was the Christ, Jesus «began to teach them [the disciples] that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law and that he must be killed and after three days rise again» (Mark 8:31).

Some connection between the anointing and the betrayal is suggested by Mark's statement: «Then Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went to the chief priests in order to betray him to them,» as though Judas, angered by what had happened, went directly to the priests from the house of Simon.

Mark continues, «And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest him by stealth, and kill him; for they said, «Not during the feast, lest there be a tumult of the people.»»

Matthew 26:60 ► The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for false evidence against Jesus so that they could put him to death.

Regarding his own fate, he «began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed» (Matt.