* Annas.
Annas was dismissed from being high priest, A.D. 23, after
filling that office for fifteen years; but, being a person of
distinguished character, and having had no fewer than five
sons who had successively enjoyed the dignity of the
high-priesthood, and the present high priest Caiaphas being
his son-in-law, he must have possessed much authority in the
nation. It was at the palace of Caiaphas where the chief
priests, elders, and scribes were assembled the whole of the
night to see the issue of their stratagem.
13 Mt 26:57
* bound.
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