caiaphas in English

noun

(New Testament) Jewish high priest; Sadducee

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1. Caiaphas viewed Jesus as a dangerous rabble-rouser.

2. Arrogance prevented Caiaphas from accepting the Messiah.

3. Caiaphas married the daughter of Annas, another high priest.

4. 36 The apostles stand before a raging Caiaphas.

5. But Caiaphas was ill-disposed toward the Christian message.

6. Why did Caiaphas and the Sadducees become “filled with jealousy”?

7. Questioned by Annas; trial by Caiaphas, Sanhedrin; Peter denies him

8. Caiaphas succeeds in influencing the Sanhedrin to make plans to kill Jesus.

9. 14 Caiaphas sent soldiers to arrest Jesus under the cover of night.

10. The two Caiaphas ossuaries might be as early as the beginning of the century.”

11. When the soldiers took Jesus to the house of Caiaphas, most of the apostles fled.

12. It seems that both Annas and Caiaphas belonged to the powerful sect of the Sadducees. —Acts 5:17.

13. What Caiaphas actually meant was that Jesus should be killed to prevent Him from further undermining their positions of authority and influence.

14. For example, Caiaphas was appointed High Priest of Herod's Temple by Prefect Valerius Gratus and deposed by Syrian Legate Lucius Vitellius.

15. Later, High Priest Caiaphas affected great indignation and outrage by ripping his garments over Jesus’ admission that he was the Son of God.

16. 5 Caiaphas and the Sadducees, the religious sect to which he belonged, became “filled with jealousy” and had the apostles thrown in jail.

17. 16 When Jesus went to the temple, High Priest Caiaphas did not anoint him to be the Messianic king independent of the Roman Empire.

18. Indeed, the high priest Caiaphas and his accomplices and Judas Iscariot all bear heavier responsibility than Pilate for the unjust treatment of Jesus.

19. Just three years after the apostles appeared before the Sanhedrin, Caiaphas fell out of favor with the Roman authorities and was removed as high priest.

20. Regarding the ossuary of Caiaphas, see the article entitled “The High Priest Who Condemned Jesus,” in The Watchtower of January 15, 2006, pages 10-13.

21. Changing tactics, Caiaphas demands: “By the living God I put you under oath to tell us whether you are the Christ the Son of God!”

22. And since Caiaphas is only associated with Jesus's crucifixion, you put two and two together and they seem to imply that these are the nails.

23. Joseph Caiaphas, the high priest and president of the Sanhedrin, sternly addresses them: “We positively ordered you not to keep teaching upon the basis of this name.”

24. (Acts 22:3) Though Saul’s teacher Gamaliel was evidently somewhat broad-minded, high priest Caiaphas, with whom Saul came to be associated, proved to be fanatic.

25. From one Amorite high priest, Annas, Jesus was sent to another Amorite high priest, Caiaphas (there were two high priests at the time, according to Luke 3:2)

26. (Mark 11:15-18) In addition, Caiaphas feared that Jesus’ popularity with the Jewish crowds would eventually lead to Roman intervention and to his personal loss of power.

27. In Mark’s parallel account, when directly challenged by Caiaphas to reveal if He was the Messiah, Jesus courageously replied: “I am.” —Mark 14:62; see also Matthew 26:25 and Mark 15:2.

28. Of course, the Christian Greek Scriptures refer to many other historical figures, and there is archaeological evidence to support a number of them as well —such as Herod, Pontius Pilate, Tiberius, Caiaphas, and Sergius Paulus.