and set up false witnesses who said, “This man does not cease to speak blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.
Do not deliver me to the will of my enemies; for false witnesses have risen against me, and they breathe out violence.
Malicious witnesses rise up; they ask me of things I do not know.
All day they twist my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker, who ceases stirring the fire after kneading the dough until it is leavened.
“So when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),
The chief priests and the elders and the entire Sanhedrin searched for false witness against Jesus to put Him to death,
crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man teaching all men everywhere against the people and the law and this place. He even brought Greeks into the temple and has defiled this holy place.”
while he defended himself, saying, “Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I sinned at all.”
Then they secretly instigated men who said, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”
And they threw him out of the city and stoned him. The witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
For a change in the priesthood necessitates a change in the law.