P2033:3, 190:3.3
As a result of sending out the messengers during the midforenoon and from the
unconscious leakage of intimations concerning this appearance of Jesus at Joseph's
house, word began to come to the rulers of the Jews during the early evening
that it was being reported about the city that Jesus had risen, and that many
persons were claiming to have seen him. The Sanhedrists were thoroughly aroused
by these rumors. After a hasty consultation with Annas, Caiaphas called a meeting
of the Sanhedrin to convene at eight o'clock that evening. It was at this meeting
that action was taken to throw out of the synagogues any person who made mention
of Jesus' resurrection. It was even suggested that any
one claiming to have seen him should be put to death; this proposal,
however, did not come to a vote since the meeting broke up in confusion bordering
on actual panic. They had dared to think they were through with Jesus. They
were about to discover that their real trouble with the man of Nazareth had
just begun.