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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

(standing). In Mark 6:21²¹And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee; (Mark 6:21), a class or order representing the government. The “estate of the elders,” Acts 22:5⁵As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished. (Acts 22:5), was a body of advisers cooperating with the Sanhedrim.