Chief Priests

Famous quotes containing the words chief priests, chief and/or priests:

    “Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, “What will you give me if I betray him to you?” They paid him thirty pieces of silver.”
    —Bible: New Testament, Matthew 26:14 ,15.

    “Go to the ant, you lazybones; consider its ways, and be wise. Without having any chief or officer or ruler, it prepares its food in summer, and gathers its sustenance in harvest.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 6:6-8.

    “The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians’, and the world is very successfully ruled by them as the policemen.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)