Bible Verses About Caiaphas

You know that after two days shall be the pasch: and the Son of man shall be delivered up to be crucified.

Then were gathered together the chief priests and ancients of the people, into the court of the high priest, who was called Caiphas:

But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest said to him: I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us if thou be the Christ the Son of God.

Jesus saith to him: Thou hast said it. Nevertheless I say to you, hereafter you shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of the power of God and coming in the clouds of heaven.

Then the high priest rent his garments, saying: He hath blasphemed: What further need have we of witnesses? Behold, now you have heard the blasphemy.

But one of them, named Caiphas, being the high priest that year, said to them: You know nothing.

Neither do you consider that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people and that the whole nation perish not.

And this he spoke not of himself: but being the high priest of that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation.

And as they were speaking to the people the priests and the officer of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them,

Being grieved that they taught the people and preached in Jesus the resurrection from the dead:

And they laid hands upon them and put them in hold till the next day: for it was now evening.

But many of them who had heard the word believed: and the number of the men was made five thousand.

And it came to pass on the morrow, that their princes and ancients and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem.

And Annas the high priest and Caiphas and John and Alexander: and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest.

And setting them in the midst, they asked: By what power or by what name, have you done this?

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said to them: Ye princes of the people and ancients, hear.

If we this day are examined concerning the good deed done to the infirm man, by what means he hath been made whole:

Be it known to you all and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God hath raised from the dead, even by him, this man standeth here before you, whole.

This is the stone which was rejected by you the builders, which is become the head of the corner.

Neither is there salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved.

Now seeing the constancy of Peter and of John, understanding that they were illiterate and ignorant men, they wondered: and they knew them that they had been with Jesus.

Seeing the man also who had been healed, standing with them, they could say nothing against it.

But they commanded them to go aside out of the council: and they conferred among themselves,

Saying: What shall we do to these men? For indeed a miracle hath been done by them, known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. It is manifest: and we cannot deny it.

But that it may be no farther spread among the people, let us threaten them that they speak no more in this name to any man.