Gamaliel the Elder (Rabban
Gamaliel I) was a leading authority in the Sanhedrin in the early 1st
century CE. He was the son of Simeon ben
Hillel, and grandson of the great Jewish teacher Hillel the Elder, and died twenty years before the destruction of
the Second Temple in Jerusalem (70 CE). In Jewish tradition, Gamaliel is
described as bearing the titles Nasi
and Rabban (our master), as the President
of the Great Sanhedrin in Jerusalem. Read the complete blog at -- http://bhcbiblestudies.blogspot.com/2015/08/did-paul-learn-to-write-epistles-from.html
The witnesses, laying their coats at the feet of Saul, were the men that would cast the first stones at Stephen in Acts 7. Why did they all lay their coats at Saul’s feet? The Talmud contains a very interesting account of the act of stoning that may provide the answer. “When the trial was over, they take him [the condemned person] out to be stoned. The place of stoning was at a distance from the court, as it is said, ‘Take out the one who has cursed.’ [i] A man stands at the entrance of the court; in his hand is a signaling flag [Hebrew sudarin = sudar , ‘scarf, sweater’]. A horseman was stationed far away but within sight of him. If one [of the judges] says, ‘I have something [more] to say in his favor,’ he [the signaler] waves the sudarin , and the horseman runs and stops them [from stoning him]. Even if [the condemned person] himself says, ‘I have something to say in my favor,’ they bring him back, even four of five times, only provided that there is some substance to...
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