You heard his blasphemy. What is your decision?” They all voted against him: he was guilty and should be put to death.
and be put to death. Any Israelite or any foreigner living in Israel who curses the Lord shall be stoned to death by the whole community.
And they said, “We don't need any witnesses! We ourselves have heard what he said!”
The crowd answered back, “We have a law that says he ought to die, because he claimed to be the Son of God.”
This saying made the Jewish authorities all the more determined to kill him; not only had he broken the Sabbath law, but he had said that God was his own Father and in this way had made himself equal with God.
“If someone has been put to death for a crime and the body is hung on a post,