<t /><p class="bodytext">When<n id="1" /> it was early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people plotted against Jesus to execute him.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now when<n id="1" /> Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus<n id="2" /> had been condemned, he regretted what he had done and returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and the elders,

But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus killed.

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they perform a ritual washing,<n id="1" /> holding fast to the tradition of the elders.

<t /><p class="bodytext">They came again to Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> While Jesus<n id="2" /> was walking in the temple courts,<n id="3" /> the chief priests, the experts in the law,<n id="4" /> and the elders came up to him

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> they led Jesus to the high priest, and all the chief priests and elders and experts in the law<n id="2" /> came together.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Early in the morning, after forming a plan, the chief priests with the elders and the experts in the law<n id="1" /> and the whole Sanhedrin tied Jesus up, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate.<n id="2" />

When the centurion<n id="1" /> heard<n id="2" /> about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders<n id="3" /> to him, asking him to come<n id="4" /> and heal his slave.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Now his older son was in the field. As<n id="1" /> he came and approached the house, he heard music<n id="2" /> and dancing.

Then<n id="1" /> Jesus said to the chief priests, the officers of the temple guard,<n id="2" /> and the elders who had come out to get him, &#8220;Have you come out with swords and clubs like you would against an outlaw?<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">Now when they heard this, they began to drift away one at a time, starting with the older ones,<n id="1" /> until Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

<t /><p class="bodytext">When they were released, Peter and John<n id="1" /> went to their fellow believers<n id="2" /> and reported everything the high priests and the elders had said to them.

They incited the people, the<n id="1" /> elders, and the experts in the law;<n id="2" /> then they approached Stephen,<n id="3" /> seized him, and brought him before the council.<n id="4" />

When they arrived in Jerusalem, they were received<n id="1" /> by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they reported<n id="2" /> all the things God had done with them.<n id="3" />

They sent this letter with them:<n id="1" />p> <p class="BlockQuote">From the apostles<n id="2" /> and elders, your brothers,<n id="3" /> to the Gentile brothers and sisters<n id="4" /> in Antioch,<n id="5" /> Syria,<n id="6" /> and Cilicia, greetings!

As they went through the towns,<n id="1" /> they passed on<n id="2" /> the decrees that had been decided on by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem<n id="3" /> for the Gentile believers<n id="4" /> to obey.<n id="5" />

They<n id="1" /> went<n id="2" /> to the chief priests<n id="3" /> and the elders and said, &#8220;We have bound ourselves with a solemn oath<n id="4" /> not to partake<n id="5" /> of anything until we have killed Paul.

<t /><p class="bodytext">After five days the high priest Ananias<n id="1" /> came down with some elders and an attorney<n id="2" /> named<n id="3" /> Tertullus, and they<n id="4" /> brought formal charges<n id="5" /> against Paul to the governor.

When I was in Jerusalem,<n id="1" /> the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed<n id="2" /> me about him,<n id="3" /> asking for a sentence of condemnation<n id="4" /> against him.

<t /><p class="bodytext">The reason I left you in Crete was to set in order the remaining matters and to appoint elders in every town, as I directed you.