Caiaphas
- Role
- high priest
- Era
- 14 BC–46 AD
- Passages
- 9
- Named in
- New Testament (4 books)
High priest AD 18-36, attested outside the Gospels.
Presided over the council that handed Jesus to Pilate.
The name
- Καϊάφα Kaiapha — Caiaphas lexicon
Outside scripture
Critical
A first-century ossuary inscribed with the family name was found in Jerusalem in 1990, and Josephus names him as high priest across the period the Gospels describe.
Attestation. The Caiaphas ossuary, Peace Forest, Jerusalem, 1990; Josephus, Antiquities 18.35, 18.95.
This is a question of evidence, not of doctrine, and is kept separate from the disagreements above for that reason.
Named in
Passages are linked from the tagged text; the summary and any positions above are written by hand and cited.