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Matthew 2:4

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And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.

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Acts 23:9Rank 1 from verse 4
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⁹And there arose a great cry: and the scribes that were of the Pharisees’ part arose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him, let us not fight against God.
Acts 6:12Rank 2 from verse 4
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¹²And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council,
Matthew 21:23Rank 3 from verse 4
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²³¶ And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?
Matthew 7:29Rank 4 from verse 4
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²⁹For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.
Acts 4:5Rank 5 from verse 4
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⁵¶ And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers, and elders, and scribes,
Jeremiah 8:8Rank 6 from verse 4
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⁸How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
John 18:3Rank 7 from verse 4
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³Judas then, having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons.
John 3:10Rank 8 from verse 4
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¹⁰Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?
John 7:32Rank 9 from verse 4
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³²¶ The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him.
John 8:3Rank 10 from verse 4
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³And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,
Luke 20:19Rank 11 from verse 4
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¹⁹¶ And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them.
Luke 23:10Rank 12 from verse 4
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¹⁰And the chief priests and scribes stood and vehemently accused him.
1 Chronicles 24:4–19Rank 13 from verse 4
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⁴And there were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar; and thus were they divided. Among the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen chief men of the house of their fathers, and eight among the sons of Ithamar according to the house of their fathers.
⁵Thus were they divided by lot, one sort with another; for the governors of the sanctuary, and governors of the house of God, were of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.
⁶And Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe, one of the Levites, wrote them before the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and before the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites: one principal household being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.
⁷Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,
⁸The third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,
⁹The fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin,
¹⁰The seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah,
¹¹The ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah,
¹²The eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim,
¹³The thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab,
¹⁴The fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer,
¹⁵The seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Aphses,
¹⁶The nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezekel,
¹⁷The one and twentieth to Jachin, the two and twentieth to Gamul,
¹⁸The three and twentieth to Delaiah, the four and twentieth to Maaziah.
¹⁹These were the orderings of them in their service to come into the house of the Lord, according to their manner, under Aaron their father, as the Lord God of Israel had commanded him.
2 Chronicles 34:13Rank 14 from verse 4
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¹³Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and were overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.
2 Chronicles 34:15Rank 15 from verse 4
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¹⁵And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.
2 Chronicles 36:14Rank 16 from verse 4
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¹⁴¶ Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the Lord which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
Ezra 10:5Rank 17 from verse 4
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⁵Then arose Ezra, and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they should do according to this word. And they sware.
Ezra 7:11–12Rank 18 from verse 4
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¹¹¶ Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even a scribe of the words of the commandments of the Lord, and of his statutes to Israel.
¹²Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, a scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect peace, and at such a time.
Ezra 7:6Rank 19 from verse 4
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⁶This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the Lord God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the Lord his God upon him.
Malachi 2:7Rank 20 from verse 4
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⁷For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.
Mark 8:31Rank 21 from verse 4
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³¹And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
Matthew 13:52Rank 22 from verse 4
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⁵²Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
Matthew 21:15Rank 23 from verse 4
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¹⁵And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David; they were sore displeased,
Matthew 26:3Rank 24 from verse 4
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³Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
Matthew 26:47Rank 25 from verse 4
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⁴⁷¶ And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.
Matthew 27:1Rank 26 from verse 4
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¹WHEN the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
Nehemiah 12:7Rank 27 from verse 4
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⁷Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chief of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua.
Psalms 2:2Rank 28 from verse 4
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²The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying,

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Matthew 2:4

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gathered

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of gather, meaning to collect, bring together, or assemble.

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COMBINED MEANING

1. First, principal, highest, leading, greatest, most excellent, most important, or most responsible in rank, order, degree, value, or guilt. 2. A leader, head, principal ruler, officer, or principal member of a group.