Notes on Councils
Council or Sanhedrin
is translated from the Greek word Sunedrion which means a
court or council of deliberation.
In Matthew 10:17
Jesus warns the disciples that they will be
delivered up "to the councils, and they will
scourge you in their synagogues;" In this
case Council refers to a religious court much
like our lower courts that try smaller cases. The
court was theocratic in that it dealt with both
civil and religious offences.
In Matthew 26:59
Council is used to speak of the main court at the
Temple in Jerusalem.
Mathew
Chapter 10 - Full Text
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References in
Scripture
Matthew
10:17
Matthew
26:59
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Matthew
10:17
17 But beware of men: for they will
deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you
in their synagogues;
Matthew 26:59
59 Now the chief priests, and elders,
and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus,
to put him to death;
Sunedrion
- 1.any assembly (esp. of magistrates, judges,
ambassadors), whether convened to deliberate or
pass judgment
- 2.any session or assembly or people deliberating
or adjudicating a.the Sanhedrin, the great
council at Jerusalem, consisting of the seventy
one members, viz. scribes, elders, prominent
members of the high priestly families and the
high priest, the president of the assembly. The
most important causes were brought before this
tribunal, inasmuch as the Roman rulers of Judaea
had left to it the power of trying such cases,
and also of pronouncing sentence of death, with
the limitation that a capital sentence pronounced
by the Sanhedrin was not valid unless it was
confirmed by the Roman procurator. b.a smaller
tribunal or council which every Jewish town had
for the decision of less important cases. Sunedrion
- KJV Greek Lexicon
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