More correctly Sanhedrin (Gr. synedrion), meaning "a sitting together," or a "council." This word (rendered "council, " A.V.) is frequently used in the New Testament (Matthew 5:22; 26:59; Mark 15:1, etc.) to denote the supreme judicial and administrative council of the Jews, which, it is said, was first instituted by Moses, and was composed of seventy men (Numbers 11:16, 17). But that seems to have been only a temporary arrangement which Moses made. This council is with greater probability supposed to have originated among the Jews when they were under the domination of the Syrian kings in the time of the Maccabees. The name is first employed by the Jewish historian Josephus. This "council" is referred to simply as the "chief priests and elders of the people" (Matthew 26:3, 47, 57, 59; 27:1, 3, 12, 20, etc.), before whom Christ was tried on the charge of claiming to be the Messiah. Peter and John were also brought before it for promulgating heresy (Acts 4:1-23; 5:17-41); as was also Stephen on a charge of blasphemy (6:12-15), and Paul for violating a temple by-law (22:30; 23:1-10).

The Sanhedrin is said to have consisted of seventy-one members, the high priest being president. They were of three classes (1) the chief priests, or heads of the twenty-four priestly courses (1 Chronicles 24), (2) the scribes, and (3) the elders. As the highest court of judicature, "in all causes and over all persons, ecclesiastical and civil, supreme," its decrees were binding, not only on the Jews in Palestine, but on all Jews wherever scattered abroad. Its jurisdiction was greatly curtailed by Herod, and afterwards by the Romans. Its usual place of meeting was within the precincts of the temple, in the hall "Gazith," but it sometimes met also in the house of the high priest (Matthew 26:3), who was assisted by two vice-presidents.

(n.) the great council of the Jews, which consisted of seventy members, to whom the high priest was added. It had jurisdiction of religious matters.

The Sanhedrim in Session.
... Chapter XI. The Sanhedrim in Session. 45. Many of the Jews who came to Mary. ... For
an account of the Sanhedrim [9]see notes on chapter 1:19. What do we? ...
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Double Dealing of the Sanhedrim.
... Double Dealing of the Sanhedrim. It is obvious, at first sight, that the procedure
of the Sanhedrim in condemning Christ was illegal and arbitrary. ...
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Message of the Sanhedrim to John at Bethabara.
... THE BAPTIST."THE FIRST DISCIPLES. Section 111. Message of the Sanhedrim
to John at Bethabara. Meanwhile John, with his disciples ...
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Vain Attempts of the Sanhedrim against Christ. (John, vii. , 40-53 ...
... Section 197. Vain Attempts of the Sanhedrim against Christ. (John, vii.,
40-53.)"Dispute in the Sanhedrim."First Decision against Christ. ...
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Attempts of the Sanhedrim to Corrupt and Alarm the Restored Blind ...
... Attempts of the Sanhedrim to corrupt and alarm the restored Blind Man."Christ's
Conversation with him."The Sight of the Blind, and the Blindness of the ...
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His Precautions against the Persecutions of the Sanhedrim.
... CHRIST'S JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM TO ATTEND THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES. Section 192. His
Precautions against the Persecutions of the Sanhedrim. (John, vii.) ...
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Measures Taken against Christ by the Sanhedrim. (John, xi. , 47 ...
... CHAPTER XV. JESUS IN BETHANY. Section 234. Measures taken against Christ
by the Sanhedrim. (John, xi., 47, seq.). The raising of ...
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Object of Christ in the Last Supper.
... We need not necessarily presuppose that he was supernaturally informed of it; for
it may be said that his friends in the Sanhedrim (and he had such) informed ...
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How Antipater Committed the Care of Galilee to Herod, and that of ...
... our law, which hath forbidden to slay any man, even though he were a wicked man,
unless he had been first condemned to suffer death by the Sanhedrim [15] yet ...
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The Consistories of More Note: Out of the Babylonian Talmud ...
... Indeed, the Sanhedrim of R. Jochanan was in Jabneh; but his consistory, his seat
of judgment, seems to be distinguished from the Sanhedrim. ...
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Sanhedrim (20 Occurrences)
... was added. It had jurisdiction of religious matters. Multi-Version Concordance
Sanhedrim (20 Occurrences). Matthew 5:22 But I say ...
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Annas (4 Occurrences)
... Caiaphas, who had married the daughter of Annas (John 18:13), was raised to that
office, and probably Annas was now made president of the Sanhedrim, or deputy ...
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Intending (24 Occurrences)
... to know the certainty wherefore he is accused by the Jews, he did loose him from
the bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all their sanhedrim to come ...
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Council (51 Occurrences)
... The Jewish councils were the Sanhedrim, or supreme council of the nation, which
had subordinate to it smaller tribunals (the "judgment, " perhaps, in Matthew 5 ...
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Counsel (192 Occurrences)
... Mark 15:1 And immediately in the morning the chief priests, having taken counsel
with the elders and scribes and the whole sanhedrim, bound Jesus and carried ...
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Sang (28 Occurrences)

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Unrighteousness (57 Occurrences)
... YLT). Acts 24:20 or let these same say if they found any unrighteousness
in me in my standing before the sanhedrim, (YLT). Acts 25 ...
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Lightly (31 Occurrences)
... his brother shall be subject to the judgment; but whosoever shall say to his brother,
Raca, shall be subject to be called before the sanhedrim; but whosoever ...
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Gamaliel (7 Occurrences)
... He was noted for his learning, and was president of the Sanhedrim during the regins
of Tiberius, Caligula, and Claudius, and died, it is said, about eighteen ...
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Gama'li-el (2 Occurrences)
... Acts 5:34 but a certain one, having risen up in the sanhedrim -- a Pharisee, by
name Gamaliel, a teacher of law honoured by all the people -- commanded to put ...
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