You heard him claim to be God! What is your decision?” They all agreed that he should be put to death.
They replied, “Why do we need more witnesses? He said it himself!”
The crowd replied, “He claimed to be the Son of God! Our Jewish 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 that God was his Father, which made him equal with God.
If a criminal is put to death, and you hang the dead body on a tree,