Annas [ÔöÇ├®n’nas]…–grace of jehovah.… A Jewish high priest, the son of Seth, appointed to office in his thirty-seventh year by Quirinus, and who was in office when John the Baptist began his ministry ……(Luke 3:2John 18:13, 24Acts 4:6). …Annas was an astute and powerful ecclesiastical statesman, who took part not only in the trial of Jesus, but also in those of Peter and John.