Caiaphas
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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And Alvin Crawford brings bravado to the treacherous high priest Caiaphas, whose booming vocals are complemented by Tyce Green’s screeching accomplice Annas.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2022
Women played Simon and Judas; a mix of the school’s nerd and jock squads Caiaphas and his cabal; and the son of a French expat aristocrat sang Pilate.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2021
He wrote, “Blame yourself, O humankind, whether of the Jews or the Gentiles. . . . Not only Caiaphas and Pilate, but I myself am the murderer.”
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 25, 2016
Two of those figures, Pontius Pilate and Caiaphas, the Jewish high priest, conspire and scheme with and against each other in an effort to maintain order and control.
From Newsweek ● Apr. 5, 2015
Bound, and a prisoner, Jesus was led back into the city, and to the palace probably occupied by Caiaphas, the high-priest and Annas his father-in-law and president of the Sanhedrim, or great Jewish council.
From The First Easter by J. H. (James Hartwell) Willard
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