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Example sentences for "chief priests"

  • From that time, Jesus instructed His disciples about how He must go into Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and scribes.

  • First thing the next morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and carried Him away, and delivered Him to Pilate.

  • A band of Roman soldiers to prevent a tumult, and officers of the Temple police supplied by chief priests.

  • Exposed hypocrisy of chief priests, hollowness of Scribes and Pharisees (St. Luke xi.

  • Note the forbearance and majesty of Christ; the loving impetuosity of St. Peter; the malice of Judas and the gratified hatred of chief priests.

  • Footnote a: The Sanhedrin included both Sadducees (chief priests) and Pharisees.

  • But all that heard him were amazed, and said: Is not this he that destroyed them which called on this name in Jerusalem, and came hither for that intent, that he might bring them bound unto the Chief Priests?

  • But all that heard him were amazed, and said: Is not this he that destroyeth them which called on his name in Jerusalem; and came hither for that intent, that he might bring them bound unto the chief priests?

  • Chief priests, scribes, and elders of the people were outwitted and humiliated.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    chief clerk; chief command; chief engineer; chief factor; chief good; chief judge; chief magistrate; chief mate; chief minister; chief mourner; chief priests; chief quartermaster; chief rabbi; chief town; chief trader; chiefly because; chiefly used; dance looby; impure water; long ages; overtake them; second look; shall offer; these laws; thinking aloud; three cards