– Annually chosen to be head of the priests and Levites, he also had political power among the Jews. He sentenced Jesus to death:
Mt 26,3.57-68 : Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered together in the courtyard of the high priest.
Mk 14,53-64 : They led Jesus to the high priest’s house, where all the priests, scribes and elders had gathered.
Lc 22,54 : So they arrested him and led him to the house of the prince of the priests.
Jn 11:49 : One of them, named Caiaphas, who was the high priest that year, said to them: “You do not understand anything!”.
Jn 18,19,22-24 : The high priest asked Jesus about his disciples and his doctrine.
– Jesus is the only priest of the New Covenant:
Heb 2:17 : It was fitting for him to become like his brothers in everything, that he might be a compassionate high priest.
Heb 3:1 : Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of the calling that destined you for the inheritance of heaven.
Heb 4:14 : So we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God.
Heb 5:1 : Every high priest is chosen from among men and constituted on behalf of men as a mediator.
Heb 5:10 : For God proclaimed him a priest after the order of Melchizedek.
Heb 6:20 : Where Jesus entered for us as a forerunner, the eternal High Priest, according to the order of Melchizedek.
Heb 7:26 , 28 : Such is the Pontiff who suited us: holy, innocent, immaculate, separate from sinners.
Heb 8,1.3-4 : The essential point of what we have just said is this: we have a High Priest, who is sitting down.
Heb 9,7.11.25 : In the second, only the high priest enters, only once a year, and still taking the blood with him.
– In the AT, the ritual norms, the garments and the consecration of the priests are described in detail:
Lev 8–10 : Take Aaron and his sons, the garments, the anointing oil, the bull of the sin offering.
Ex 28–29 : Bring to you […] your brother Aaron and his sons to serve me in the priestly office.
– See HOLY OF SAINTS.
