New Revised Standard Version
Now the chief priests and the whole council were looking for false testimony against Jesus so that they might put him to death,

Contemporary English Version
The chief priests and the whole council wanted to put Jesus to death. So they tried to find some people who would tell lies about him in court.

New American Bible
The chief priests and the entire Sanhedrin kept trying to obtain false testimony against Jesus in order to put him to death,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the chief priests and the whole council sought false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death.

And the chief priests and the whole council sought false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death.

sought.

Deuteronomy 19:16-21 If a lying witness stand against a man, accusing him of transgression, . . .

1 Kings 21:8-13 So she wrote letters in Achab's name, and sealed them with his ring, and sent them to the ancients, and the chief men that were in his city, and that dwelt with Naboth. . . .

Psalm 27:12 Deliver me not over to the will of them that trouble me; for unjust witnesses have risen up against me; and iniquity hath lied to itself.

Psalm 35:11,12 Unjust witnesses rising up have asked me things I knew not. . . .

Psalm 94:20,21 Doth the seat of iniquity stick to thee, who framest labour in commandment? . . .

Proverbs 25:18 A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour, is like a dart and a sword and a sharp arrow.

Mark 14:55,56 And the chief priests and all the council sought for evidence against Jesus, that they might put him to death: and found none. . . .

Acts 6:11-13 Then they suborned men to say they had heard him speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God. . . .

Acts 24:1-13 And after five days, the high priest, Ananias, came down with some ancients and one Tertullus, an orator, who went to the governor against Paul. . . .