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Council of the Chief Priests

Name: Council of the Chief Priests
Brand: GoodSalt
SKU: wjpas0709
Price: 3.95 USD
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Chief priests and elders sit in formal council, robed figures gathered before them in a solemn indoor setting. The raised seating, vessels, and palm branch behind the leaders suggest a religious assembly in Jerusalem where authority, accusation, and judgment are being weighed. The composition evokes the Gospel accounts in which the priestly leaders meet together to decide how to oppose Jesus, revealing the tension between human power and the unfolding purpose of God. This artwork is suited for teaching on the Passion narrative, religious opposition to Christ, unjust judgment, and the councils that preceded the crucifixion.

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Keywords	chief priests council elders judgment Passion narrative sanhedrin
Secondary Keywords	Gospel narrative jerusalem meeting Palm Sunday aftermath priestly council priests religious leaders temple authority unjust trial
Tertiary Keywords	accusation ancient council biblical teaching Jewish leaders opposition to Jesus
Scriptures	John 11:47-53 Mark 14:1-2 Matthew 26:3-5 John 11 47 So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the Council and said, “What are we to do? For this man performs many signs. 48 If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.” 49 But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all. 50 Nor do you understand that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish.” 51 He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, 52 and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. 53 So from that day on they made plans to put him to death. Mark 14 1 It was now two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest him by stealth and kill him, 2 for they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar from the people.” Matthew 26 3 Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas, 4 and plotted together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him. 5 But they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar among the people.”

Council of the Chief Priests

John 11

Mark 14

Matthew 26

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