Then 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,
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
They are coming to the high priest with the desire to obtain their authority from him, by whom they ought to have been hindered. How many high priests were there? For the law wills there should be one, but then there were many. From this it is beginning to be evident that the Jewish structure of governance had begun to collapse. For Moses, as I said, commanded there should be one and that when he was dead there should be another. The Gospel of Matthew, Homily
