authorities asserting that Jesus is not worthy of belief. He cannot be the Mosaic prophet because he comes from Galilee.8 In the debate with the man born blind, the issue is whether Jesus is “from God”;9 his crime is that he violates the Sabbath and that God has not spoken to him (9:29). When the Sanhedrin condemns Jesus, it argues that if it allows him to continue, the Romans will come and take away its independence and destroy the Temple (11:48). The presence of a “Mosaic”