Jewish Council Of Seventy, Or Sanhedrin   
      
   Last Updated : July 25, 2006   
      
      
   "And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and   
   Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of   
   Israel; and worship ye afar off . . . Then went up Moses,   
   and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of   
   Israel:"   
   Exodus 24:1, 9, KJV   
      
   "And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of   
   the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of   
   the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the   
   tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there   
   with thee . . . And Moses went out, and told the people the   
   words of the LORD, and gathered the seventy men of the   
   elders of the people, and set them round about the   
   tabernacle. And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake   
   unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave   
   it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when   
   the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not   
   cease."   
   Numbers 11:16, 24-25, KJV   
      
   "And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked   
   abominations that they do here. So I went in and saw; and   
   behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts,   
   and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon   
   the wall round about. And there stood before them seventy   
   men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst   
   of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man   
   his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went   
   up. Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what   
   the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every   
   man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD   
   seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth."   
   Ezekiel 8:9-12, KJV   
      
   In the New Testament, we find the counterpart to these   
   Seventy Elders in such verses as the following; however,   
   they were definitely not the same God-fearing people who   
   comprised the Sanhedrin under Moses' leadership. If they had   
   been, they wouldn't have killed Jesus Christ:   
      
   "But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his   
   brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment:   
   and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in   
   danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool,   
   shall be in danger of hell fire."   
   Matthew 5:22, KJV   
      
   "Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council,   
   sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;"   
   Matthew 26:59, KJV   
      
   "And straightway in the morning the chief priests held a   
   consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole   
   council, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and   
   delivered him to Pilate."   
   Mark 15:1, KJV   
      
   "And when they heard that, they entered into the temple   
   early in the morning, and taught. But the high priest came,   
   and they that were with him, and called the council   
   together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and   
   sent to the prison to have them brought."   
   Acts 5:21, KJV   
      
   "On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty   
   wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from his   
   bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their council   
   to appear, and brought Paul down, and set him before them."   
   Acts 22:30, KJV   
      
   Please note that the word 'council' is derived from the   
   Greek form of the word 'Sanhedrin', which is transliterated   
   from Greek as 'sunedrion'.   
      
      
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