Matthew 2:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

and calling together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Messiah was to be born.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 34:13

were over the burden bearers and directed all who did work in every kind of service, and some of the Levites were scribes, and officials, and gatekeepers.

2 Chronicles 34:15

Hilkiah said to the secretary Shaphan, “I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord,” and Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan.

2 Chronicles 36:14

All the leading priests and the people also were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations, and they polluted the house of the Lord that he had consecrated in Jerusalem.

Ezra 10:5

Then Ezra stood up and made the leading priests, the Levites, and all Israel swear that they would do as had been said. So they swore.

Ezra 7:6

this Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe skilled in the law of Moses that the Lord the God of Israel had given, and the king granted him all that he asked, for the hand of the Lord his God was upon him.

Nehemiah 12:7

Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the leaders of the priests and of their associates in the days of Jeshua.

Psalm 2:2

The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and his anointed, saying,

Jeremiah 8:8

How can you say, “We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us,” when, in fact, the false pen of the scribes has made it into a lie?

Malachi 2:7

For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 13:52

And he said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has become a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a household who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.”

Matthew 2:3

When King Herod heard this, he was frightened, and all Jerusalem with him,

Matthew 2:5

They told him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for so it has been written by the prophet:

Matthew 21:15

But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the amazing things that he did and heard the children crying out in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they became angry

Matthew 21:23

When he entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching and said, “By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?”

Matthew 26:3

Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the courtyard of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,

Matthew 26:47

While he was still speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, arrived; with him was a large crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the elders of the people.

Matthew 27:1

When morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people conferred together against Jesus in order to bring about his death.

Matthew 7:29

for he taught them as one having authority and not as their scribes.

Mark 8:31

Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes and be killed and after three days rise again.

Luke 20:19

When the scribes and chief priests realized that he had told this parable against them, they wanted to lay hands on him at that very hour, but they feared the people.

Luke 23:10

The chief priests and the scribes stood by vehemently accusing him.

John 18:3

So Judas brought a detachment of soldiers together with police from the chief priests and the Pharisees, and they came there with lanterns and torches and weapons.

John 3:10

Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things?

John 7:32

The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering such things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent temple police to arrest him.

John 8:3

The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and, making her stand before all of them,

Acts 23:9

Then a great clamor arose, and certain scribes of the Pharisees’ group stood up and contended, “We find nothing wrong with this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”

Acts 4:5

The next day their rulers, elders, and scribes assembled in Jerusalem,

Acts 6:12

They stirred up the people as well as the elders and the scribes; then they suddenly confronted him, seized him, and brought him before the council.