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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