Annas

Family: Jewish authorities · Role: former high priest · First appears: Luke 3

Annas is a former high priest among the Jewish authorities. In Luke 3, he is named alongside Caiaphas when the word of God came to John the Baptist. In John 18, Jesus was led to him first, as he was Caiaphas’s father-in-law, and Annas sent Jesus bound to Caiaphas, “the high priest that same year.”

By Acts 4, Annas was gathered at Jerusalem with Caiaphas and others when Peter and John, the son of Zebedee were questioned about their healing power. The council commanded them not to speak or teach in Jesus’s name, then threatened them and let them go because the people glorified God for what had been done.

Relationship record

Life events

• Annas sends Jesus bound to Caiaphas, the high priest.(John 18)
  • With: Caiaphas Jesus
  • “Now Annas had sent him bound unto Caiaphas the high priest.”
• The rulers gathered and questioned Peter and John about their healing power.(Acts 4 · 📍 Jerusalem)
  • With: Caiaphas John (kindred of the high priest) Alexander Peter John, the son of Zebedee
  • “And Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem.”
• The council commanded Peter and John not to speak or teach in Jesus’s name.(Acts 4)
  • With: Caiaphas John (kindred of the high priest) Alexander Peter John, the son of Zebedee Jesus
  • “And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.”

Luke 3

• with John the Baptist (Annas is identified as a high priest while the word of God comes to John.) “Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.”

John 18

• with Caiaphas (Annas was Caiaphas’s father-in-law.) “And led him away to Annas first; for he was father in law to Caiaphas, which was the high priest that same year.”
• sent-one: Jesus “Now Annas had sent him bound unto Caiaphas the high priest.”

Acts 4

• subordinate: Peter “And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.”
• subordinate: John, the son of Zebedee “And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.”
• enemies with Peter “So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done.”
• enemies with John, the son of Zebedee “So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done.”

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Extracted from the original text of The New Testament. Made with Rho MD.