They set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops saying things against this holy place and the law,
Do not give me up to the will of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen against me, and they are breathing out violence.
Malicious witnesses rise up; they ask me about things I do not know.
All day long they seek to injure my cause; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
They are all adulterers; they are like a heated oven whose baker does not need to stir the fire from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
“So when you see the desolating sacrilege, spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),
Now the chief priests and the whole council were looking for false testimony against Jesus so that they might put him to death,
shouting, “Fellow Israelites, help! This is the man who is teaching everyone everywhere against our people, our law, and this place; more than that, he has actually brought Greeks into the temple and has defiled this holy place.”
Paul said in his defense, “I have in no way committed an offense against the law of the Jews or against the temple or against the emperor.”
Then they secretly instigated some men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”
Then they dragged him out of the city and began to stone him, and the witnesses laid their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul.
For when there is a change in the priesthood, there is necessarily a change in the law as well.