Their kings revolt, their rulers plot together against the LORD and against the king he chose.

From his throne in heaven the Lord laughs and mocks their feeble plans.

Then the chief priests and the elders met together in the palace of Caiaphas, the High Priest,

Early in the morning all the chief priests and the elders made their plans against Jesus to put him to death.

They put him in chains, led him off, and handed him over to Pilate, the Roman governor.

It was now two days before the Festival of Passover and Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and the teachers of the Law were looking for a way to arrest Jesus secretly and put him to death.

The chief priests and the teachers of the Law were afraid of the people, and so they were trying to find a way of putting Jesus to death secretly.

The next day the Jewish leaders, the elders, and the teachers of the Law gathered in Jerusalem.

They met with the High Priest Annas and with Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and the others who belonged to the High Priest's family.

For indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together in this city with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Jesus, your holy Servant, whom you made Messiah.

They gathered to do everything that you by your power and will had already decided would happen.

The apostles obeyed, and at dawn they entered the Temple and started teaching. The High Priest and his companions called together all the Jewish elders for a full meeting of the Council; then they sent orders to the prison to have the apostles brought before them.

The Pharisees then said to one another, "You see, we are not succeeding at all! Look, the whole world is following him!"

"What shall we do with these men?" they asked. "Everyone in Jerusalem knows that this extraordinary miracle has been performed by them, and we cannot deny it.

But to keep this matter from spreading any further among the people, let us warn these men never again to speak to anyone in the name of Jesus."

When the chief priests and the officer in charge of the Temple guards heard this, they wondered what had happened to the apostles.