Assertion: ruler | /r/HasProperty | acts 16:19
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Source sentences:
text: There came a ruler" (Matthew 9:18), meaning a ruler of the synagogue (compare Mark 5:22; Luke 8:41); see (2) below; "one of the rulers of the Pharisees" (Luke 14:1), perhaps a member of the Jewish council belonging, at the same time, to the Pharisees, or, more probably, one of the leading Pharisees; "the chief priests and the rulers" (Luke 23:13,15; 24:20; compare John 3:1; 7:26,48; 12:42; Acts 3:17; 4:5,8; 13:27; 14:5); the rulers were, with the chief priests and the scribes, members of the Sanhedrin, either of two councils of the Jews (the Great and the Lesser); they were lay-members (elders); "before the rulers" (Acts 16:19), the police magistrates (praetores, "praetors") of the city of Philippi; "Thou shalt not speak evil of a ruler of thy people" (Acts 23:5; compare Ex 22:28, nasi'; see 1, (3) above), a magistrate, a person in authority (compare