Matthew 5:21

Ye have heard — From the scribes reciting the law; Thou shalt do no murder — And they interpreted this, as all the other commandments, barely of the outward act. The judgement — The Jews had in every city a court of twenty — three men, who could sentence a criminal to be strangled. But the sanhedrim only (the great council which sat at Jerusalem, consisting of seventy — two men,) could sentence to the more terrible death of stoning. That was called the judgment, this the council. Exodus 20:13.