You heard him claim to be God! What is your decision?” They all agreed he should be put to death.
The crowd replied, “He claimed to be the Son of God! Our law says that he must be put to death.”
Now the leaders wanted to kill Jesus for two reasons. First, he had broken the law of the Sabbath. But even worse, he had said God was his Father, which made him equal with God.
They replied, “Why do we need more witnesses? He said it himself!”
If a criminal is put to death, and you hang the dead body on a tree,