who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.
For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall; peradventure he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
The ruler of the synagogue, being indignant because Yeshua had healed on the Shabbat, said to the multitude, *There are six days in which men ought to work. Therefore come on those days and be healed, and not on the day of Shabbat!*
They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.
Some therefore of the Perushim said, *This man is not from God, because he doesn't keep the Shabbat.* Others said, *How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?* There was division among them.