Thanks for that.
"The Gemara continues its question:
And it is taught in a
baraita:
Forty years before the destruction of the Second
Temple, the Sanhedrin was exiled from the Chamber of Hewn Stone
and sat in the store near the Temple Mount.
And Rabbi Yitzḥak bar Avudimi says: The intent of the statement concerning the relocation of the Sanhedrin is
to say that they
no longer
judged laws of fines. The Gemara asks: Does it
enter your mind to say that they no longer judged
laws of fines? It is known that the Sanhedrin would judge laws of fines for hundreds of years after the destruction of the Temple.
Rather, he must have said
that the Sanhedrin
no longer
judged cases of
capital law. Once the Sanhedrin left the Chamber of Hewn Stone, the court’s power to judge capital cases was nullified."
Referring your your original claim:
There are two assumptions here:
1) That the Sanhedrin must have been involved in any attempt to kill Jesus
2) That an unlawful killing could occur given his mazal.
The account from John implies that the attempt to kill him was based on a religious imperative, not a legal one:
And one of them, [named] Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,
Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation;
John 11:49-51
Molnar's astrological solution provides a natural explanation of how the Magi knew that there would have been the birth of a very great king on a particular day in Judea
The teaching about unjustified hatred in the gospels leads to insight into what actually happened then the attempt was made on his life:
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| 23 | He that hateth me hateth my Father also. |
| 24 | If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. |
| 25 | But [this cometh to pass], that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause. |
| 26 | But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, [even] the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: |
There are three Psalms of David that mention unjustified hatred. Psalm 22 and 69 are about the crucified twin, Psalm 35 is about the Messiah, and Psalm 109 is about Paul.
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| 19 | Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: [neither] let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause. |
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| 4 | They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, [being] mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored [that] which I took not away. |
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| 3 | They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause. |
