John Gill's Exposition on Deuteronomy 21:19

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, etc.] With their own hands, or cause him to be apprehended by others, in which they were to agree, and which the Jews gather from hence; “if (say they f295) the father is willing (to bring him to justice), and the mother not willing, if his father is not willing and the mother is willing, he is not reckoned a stubborn or rebellious son, until they both agree:” and bring him out unto the elders of his city; according to the Misnah f296, the sanhedrim, or court of judicature, consisting of twenty three; for they say, that after he has been admonished and scourged by order of the bench of three, if he returns to his corrupt and wicked ways again, he is judged by the court of twenty three: and unto the gate of his place; or city, where the court sat; so the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, to the gate of the sanhedrim of his place.

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