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.
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