This marriage could possibly be the beginning of an office known as a sagan which later became the second highest priestly position.

Even worse, in high priestly sacrilege, he encouraged Jerry to attack a megapode hen in the act of laying.

High Priestly Prayer

Nor are you here by invitation or permission of the High Priestly Council of the Blessed Well."

Sadducees represented the aristocratic group of the Hasmonean kohen, who replaced the previous High Priestly lineage.

In Sōtō Zen, the title "Dai-Osho" is the highest priestly rank in a clear monastic hierarchy.

Jonathan, who was born of a priestly family but not from Zadok, the high priestly stock, took the title in Tishri, 152 BC.

John 17:1-26 is generally known as the Farewell Prayer or the High Priestly Prayer, given that it is an intercession for the coming Church.

He called this "being one" in his high priestly prayer: "that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you.

Many Protestant and Catholic scholars, including some early church fathers, have noted the high priestly ministry of Christ in heaven on the basis of the book of Hebrews.

The Adventist link with atonement derives from their Wesleyan-Arminian roots by extending the Wesleyan-Lutheran understanding of the atonement to include the high priestly ministry.

This is the longest prayer of Jesus in any of the gospels, and is known as the Farewell Prayer or the High Priestly Prayer.

Pandit Sharma, a bearded Brahman, or member of the highest priestly caste, told a visitor that the sale of holy water converted "an important religious act into any other business."

The British scholar Richard Bauckham reaches the similar conclusion that the beloved disciple, who also authored the gospel attributed to John, was probably a literally sophisticated member of the (surprisingly extensive) high priestly family clan.

In November 2006 he was elected to the highest priestly order of the Metropolitan and the decision was later ratified by the Malankara Synod, Working Committee, Managing Committee, the Catholicos and the Patriarch.

Von Bülow comments, "To imbue this wonderful number with what I should like to call the 'high priestly solemnity' in which it was conceived, let the performer's fantasy summon up before his eyes the sublime arches of a Gothic cathedral."

"Spy," he said, his voice crisp, businesslike, and without a trace of mercy or compassion in it, "you have been judged guilty by the High Priestly Council of the Blessed Well," he intoned, bowing his head slightly when pronouncing the last two words.

Although of foreign - Libyan - origins, he brought the south back under central control by the expedient of supplanting the old High Priestly family with his own son, and pursued an aggressive foreign policy, including military campaigns in Palestine, during one of which Jerusalem was sacked.

Additionally, in the high priestly prayer, Jesus prays for the protection and sanctification of those who believed in him, and he explicitly excludes praying for all: "I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.

According to the canons of the Eastern churches, an archdeacon is the highest priestly rank: he is the head of all the clerics belonging to a bishopric; he is responsible for the whole worship of the cathedral church and represents the will of the bishop in his absence.

Other scholars such as D. A. Carson suggest that eternal life is explicitly defined in John 17:3, where Jesus says in his High Priestly Prayer, "Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent."