Matthew 2:4

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And when he hadde gathered all the chiefe Priestes and Scribes of the people together, he demaunded of them where Christe shoulde be borne.

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  • Acts 23:9 : 9 And there arose a great crye: and whe the scribes which were of the pharisees part arose, they stroue, saying, We fynde none euyll in this man: But yf a spirite or an Angel hath spoken to hym, let vs not striue agaynst God.
  • 1 Chr 24:4-9 : 4 And there were mo auncient men founde among the sonnes of Eleazar, then the sonnes of Ithamar. And thus were they ordred together: Among the sonnes of Eleazar there were sixteene rulers according to the houshold of their fathers, and eyght among the sonnes of Ithamar according to the housholde of their fathers. 5 And thus were they put in order by lot the one sort from the other: and so were there rulers in the sanctuarie and lordes before God, aswell of the sonnes of Eleazer, as of the sonnes of Ithamar. 6 And Semeia the sonne of Nathanael the scribe, of the kinred of the Leuites, wrote them before the king & the lordes, & before Zadoc the priest and Ahimelec the sonne of Abiathar, and before the auncient fathers of the priestes and Leuites, one principall housholde being reserued for Eleazar, and one for Ithamar. 7 And the first lot fell to Iehoiarib: and the seconde to Iedaia, 8 The third to Harim, and the fourth to Sehorim, 9 The fyft to Melchia, and the sixth to Miiamin, 10 The seuenth to Hakos, and the eyght to Abia, 11 The nynth to Iesua, and the tenth to Secaniah, 12 The eleuenth to Eliasib, & the twelfth to Iakim, 13 The thirteenth to Huppa, and the fourteenth to Iesebeab, 14 The fyftenth to Bilga, and the sixtenth to Immer, 15 The seuenteenth to Hezir, and the eyghteenth to Aphses, 16 The nynteenth to Pethahia, and the twentieth to Ieheskel, 17 The twentie and one to Iachin, and the twentie and two to Gamul, 18 The twentie and three to Delaiahu, and the twentie and foure to Maasiahu. 19 These are the ordinaunces of them in their offices when they came into the house of the Lord, according to their maner vnder Aaron their father, as the lord God of Israel had comaunded him.
  • 2 Chr 34:13 : 13 And ouer the bearers of burthens, and ouer all that wrought in whatsoeuer worckmanship it were, were there scribes, officers, & porters of the Leuites.
  • 2 Chr 34:15 : 15 And Helkia aunswered and sayd to Saphan the scribe: I haue found the booke of the law in the house of the Lord. And Helkia gaue the booke to Saphan.
  • 2 Chr 36:14 : 14 Moreouer, all the chiefe of the priestes and the people trespassed wonderfully after all maner of abominations of the heathen, and polluted the house of the Lorde which he had halowed in Hierusalem.
  • Ezra 7:6 : 6 This Esdras also went vp from Babylon, and was a perfect scribe in the law of Moyses which the Lorde God of Israel did geue: And the king gaue him al that he required, according to the hand of the Lorde his God which was vpon him.
  • Ezra 7:11-12 : 11 And this is the copie of the letter that king Artaxerxes gaue vnto Esdras the priest, and scribe, which was a writer of the wordes and commaundementes of the Lorde, and of his statutes ouer Israel. 12 Artaxerxes a king of kinges, vnto Esdras the priest and scribe of the law of the God of heauen, peace and salutation.
  • Ezra 10:5 : 5 Then rose Esdras, and toke an oth of the chiefe priestes and Leuites, and of all Israel, that they should do according to this worde: And they sware.
  • Neh 12:7 : 7 Salu, Amok, Helkia, and Iedaia: These were the heades among the priestes and their brethren in the dayes of Iesua.
  • Ps 2:2 : 2 The kynges of the earth stande vp: and the rulers take counsell together against god, and against his annointed.
  • Jer 8:8 : 8 Howe dare ye say then, we are wyse, we haue the lawe of the Lorde among vs? Truely in vayne hath he prepared his penne, and vainely haue the writers written it.
  • Mal 2:7 : 7 For the priestes lippes shall kepe knowledge, and they shall seeke the lawe at his mouth: because he is the messenger of the Lorde of hoastes.
  • Matt 7:29 : 29 For he taught them, as one hauyng power, and not as the Scribes.
  • Matt 13:52 : 52 Then sayde he vnto them: Therfore, euery Scribe which is taught vnto the kyngdome of heauen, is lyke vnto a man that is an householder, whiche bryngeth foorth out of his treasure, thynges newe and olde.
  • Matt 21:15 : 15 When the chiefe priestes and scribes sawe the wonders that he dyd, and the chyldren crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the sonne of Dauid, they disdayned,
  • Matt 21:23 : 23 And when he was come into the temple, the chiefe priestes, & the elders of the people, came vnto hym teaching, and saye: By what aucthoritie doest thou these thynges? and who gaue thee this power?
  • Matt 26:3 : 3 Then assembled together the chiefe priestes, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, vnto the palace of the hye prieste, which was called Caiaphas:
  • Matt 26:47 : 47 Whyle he yet spake, loe Iudas, one of the twelue, came, and with hym a great multitude, with swordes & staues, from the chiefe priestes and elders of the people.
  • Matt 27:1 : 1 When the mornyng was come, all the chiefe priestes, and the elders of the people, helde a councell agaynst Iesus to put hym to death.
  • Mark 8:31 : 31 And he began to teache them, howe that the sonne of man must suffer many thynges, & be reproued of the elders, and of the hie priestes, & scribes, and be killed, and after three dayes, aryse agayne.
  • Luke 20:19 : 19 And the hye priestes & the scribes, the same houre went about to laye handes on hym: and they feared the people. For they perceaued that he had spoken this similitude agaynst them.
  • Luke 23:10 : 10 The hye priestes and scribes stoode foorth, and accused hym straytely.
  • John 3:10 : 10 Iesus aunswered, & sayde vnto hym: Art thou a maister in Israel, and knowest not thesethynges?
  • John 7:32 : 32 The pharisees hearde, that the people murmured such thinges concerning hym: And the pharisees and the hye priestes sent seruauntes to take hym.
  • John 8:3 : 3 And the scribes and pharisees brought vnto hym a woman taken in adulterie, & when they had set her in the middes,
  • John 18:3 : 3 Iudas then, after he had receaued a bande of men, and officers of the hye priestes & pharisees, came thyther with lanternes, and torches, and weapons.
  • Acts 4:5 : 5 And it came to passe on the morowe, that their rulers, and elders, & scribes,
  • Acts 6:12 : 12 And they moued the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came vppon hym, and caught him, and brought him to the counsell.

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