⁴ Then the ^(A)officials said to the king, “Please have this man put to death, since he is ^[a](B)discouraging the men of war who are left in this city and ^[b]all the people, by speaking words like these to them; for this man ^(C)is not seeking the well-being of this people, but rather their harm.”

¹¹ Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.” ¹² And they stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and they ^(A)came up to him and dragged him away, and brought him ^[a]before ^(B)the ^[b]Council. ¹³ They put forward ^(C)false witnesses who said, “This man does not stop ^[c]speaking against this ^(D)holy place and the Law; ¹⁴ for we have heard him say that ^(E)this Nazarene, Jesus, will destroy this place and change ^(F)the customs which Moses handed down to us.”