[64] Matt. xiv, 10; Mark vi, 27; Luke ix, 9. Cf. the interpolation in Josephus, _Antiq._, XVIII, v, 2. [65] Acts xii, 2. Cf. Rev. xx, 4 of the Christian martyrs. [66] II Sam. xvii, 23; Cf. I Kings xx, 31 “ropes upon our heads.” Tobit ii, 3 (Strangulation). [67] Sanh. xi, 1. [68] Sanh. 52b bottom; Sifra 92a, 11. [69] Mishna Sanh. vii, 3. [70] Sanh. 52b; Sifra 92a, 11. [71] Tobit iii, 10. [72] Pes. 112a bottom; Cf. Semachoth II, 3. [73] Matt. xxvii, 5. But see the different story in Acts i, 18. [74] Mishna Sanh. vi, 4. [75] II Sam. iv, 12. [76] Gen. xl, 19. [77] II Sam. xxi, 12. [78] Josh. x, 26. But in Persia, the victim may have been hanged alive, as the book of Esther seems to imply. [79] Mishna Sanh. vi, 4; Sanh. 46b; J. Chag. II, 78a. [80] Sanh. 46b. [81] Josephus, _War_, I, iv, 6. [82] Deut. xix, 16-21. Cf. also Deut. xiii, 12, xvii, 13, xxi, 21 of the rebellious son, where the deterrent nature of the punishment is again specifically mentioned. [83] Num. xxxv, 33; Deut. xix, 13. [84] Deut. xix, 11-13. [85] Exod. xxi, 14; Num. xxxv, 11, 12. [86] Exod. xxi, 13. [87] Ezek. xviii, 21-23; xxxiii, 14-16, 19. [88] Prov. xxiv, 11-13. [89] Matt. xv, 4; xxvi, 52; John xix, 10, 11; Acts xxv, 11; Romans xiii, 1-14. [90] _Cont. Apion._, II, 31, “the punishment for most sinners is death.” _Antiq._, IV, viii, 35. [91] Mishna Sanh. vi, 5. [92] Sifre to Deut. xix, 13. Cf. Deut. xiii, 9 of the seducer to idolatry. [93] Mishna Sanh. viii, 5. [94] Prov. xi, 10; Mishna Sanh. iv, 5. [95] Mishna Sanh. x, 6 end, with reference to Josh. vii, 1 and vii, 26. [96] Genesis Rabba 44 to Gen. xv, 1. [97] Mishna Macc. i, 10; Macc. 7a, Tosafoth. [98] Mishna Sanh. viii, 5; Sanh. 72a; Sifre to Deut. xxi, 18-21. It must be remembered that this case is purely theoretic. See text to notes 214 and 215. [99] Ps. vii, 16f; Eccl. x, 8f; Prov. xxvi, 27; Ben Sira xxvii, 26. [100] Ps. xxviii, 4; Isa. iii, 10, 11; Job xxxiv, 11; Obad. 15; Lev. xxiv, 19; Prov. xxiv, 29; Jer. 1, 29. [101] Aboth ii, 7; Sota i, 8; Num. Rab. xviii, 18; Sota 8a, 11a; Pes. 28a; Baba Kamma 92a. [102] Sanh. 100a, bottom; Mishna Sota i, 7. [103] Gen. ix, 6, which is not necessarily meant originally as a legal principle, but which is used by the Rabbis as such, Sanh. 57b. Cf. Matt. xxvi, 52; Sanh. 72b. [104] Mechilta de R. Simon, p. 126, with reference to Exod. xxi, 14. [105] Sanh. 52a with reference to Deut. xvii, 9; Maimonides Hilch. Sanh. xiv, 11. [106] The Jewish courts outside of Palestine were considered as having jurisdiction in capital cases only so long as the great Sanhedrin continued to hold its sessions in the special hall of the Temple. Mishna Macc. i, 10. [107] Mishna Sanh. xi, 4 in connection with Deut. xvii, 13. [108] Mishna Sanh. vi, 2; Sifre Zutta to Num. v, 6. [109] Tos. Sanh. ix, 5. [110] Mishna Sanh. vi, 2.