John Gill's Exposition on Luke 22:66

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And as soon as it was day, etc.] (See Gill on “<402701>Matthew 27:1”). The elders of the people; or “the presbytery of the people”, that were chosen from among the people to sit in the sanhedrim; the Israelites, as distinct from priests and Levites, and the doctors: and the chief priests and the Scribes came together; which made up the great sanhedrim, or council of the nation: and led him into their council; or sanhedrim, the place where the sanhedrim sat, which was in the temple, and in the chamber called tyzgh tkçl, “the paved stone chamber” f681; here they usually met, and so the Persic version renders it, “where their congregation was daily there”.

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