Word: sanhedrin
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Just after cockcrow on the Friday of the Crucifixion, the betrayer of Jesus Christ learned that the Sanhedrin had condemned the Messiah, that he had been taken before Pontius Pilate. Unhappy Judas rushed to the priests, cried: "I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood." When they shrugged and said, "What is that to us?," Judas threw down his 30 pieces of silver "and departed, and went and hanged himself." So later wrote St. Matthew, whose Gospel contains a few more details than the others concerning the man of Kerioth in Judah. Still later, after everyone...
Time end truth broke down the Sanhedrin and the Spanish Inquisition. Yale students must be patient...
That intolerance which denies free discussion was more befitting the Middle Ages than the twentieth century. In intellectual outlook there seems to have been little progress. "Difference from me" is still the measure of absurdity. The Sanhedrin and the Spanish Inquisition proceeded according to the same theory as the modern dogmatists who think they can limit truth by official mandate...