And the rulers, and all the people, said to the priests and to the prophets, There is not a sentence of death for this man, for he has spoken to us in the name of Jehovah our God.
For if you are completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance shall rise up to the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house shall perish. And who knows if you have reached to the kingdom for such a time as this?
And the priests and the prophets spoke to the rulers, and to all the people, saying, Let a sentence of death be for this man, for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.
And all the rulers obeyed, and all the people who had entered into the covenant to let go free each man his male slave, and each man his female slave; so that not one should enslave among them again; and they obeyed and let them go.
And the rulers were angry with Jeremiah and struck him, and they put him in the house of binding, in the house of Jonathan the scribe. For they had made it into a house of imprisonment.
But the centurion and those with him guarding Jesus, seeing the earthquake and the things taking place, they feared exceedingly, saying, Truly this One was Son of God.
And there was a great cry. And the scribes of the part of the Pharisees rising up, they were contending, saying, We find nothing bad in this man. And, If a spirit spoke to him, or an angel, let us not fight against God.