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Now the chief priests and the whole council sought witnesses against Jesus to put him to death, and found none.
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Verse 55. Though the law prescribed there should be only one high priest, yet at this time there were many, being appointed yearly by the Roman governor; and those are here called chief priests who had once been invested with the dignity of high priest, but were at that time out of office. Theophy.
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