Bible Verses About Courts of Justice

So I took the heads of your tribes, men wise and knowledgable, and made them heads over you - leaders in charge of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties and of tens, and officers, tribe by tribe.

one of the women said, "My lord, I and this woman live in the same house; and when she was in the house, I gave birth to a baby.

Three days after I gave birth, this woman also gave birth. We were there together; there was no one else with us in the house except the two of us.

During the night this woman's child died, because she rolled over on top of it.

So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from next to me, while your servant was sleeping, and put it in her arms; and she laid her dead child in my arms.

When I awoke in the morning to feed my child from my breast, there it was, dead. But when I took a closer look later in the morning, why, it wasn't my son at all - not the one I gave birth to!"

He appointed judges throughout the land in all the fortified cities of Y'hudah, city by city,

and instructed the judges, "Think about what you are doing: you are not dispensing justice by merely human standards but on behalf of ADONAI; he is with you when you deliver a verdict.

Therefore, let the fear of ADONAI be upon you; be careful what you do; for ADONAI our God does not allow dishonesty, partiality or bribe-taking."

In Yerushalayim Y'hoshafat appointed some of the L'vi'im, cohanim and clan heads of Isra'el to judge in matters concerning ADONAI and in civil cases. After they had returned to Yerushalayim,

he charged them, "Here is what you are to do faithfully and wholeheartedly, in fear of ADONAI:

when an issue comes before you from your brothers who live in their cities, whether it's a case involving bloodshed or a question as to which teaching, mitzvah, law or ruling applies, you must warn them; so that they won't incur guilt toward ADONAI and thereby bring anger on both you and your kinsmen. Do this, and you won't incur guilt.

The cohen hagadol stood up and said, "Have you nothing to say to the accusation these men are making?"

Yeshua remained silent. The cohen hagadol said to him, "I put you under oath! By the living God, tell us if you are the Mashiach, the Son of God!"

Yeshua said to him, "The words are your own. But I tell you that one day you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of HaG'vurah and coming on the clouds of heaven."

At this, the cohen hagadol tore his robes. "Blasphemy!" he said. "Why do we still need witnesses? You heard him blaspheme!

What is your verdict?" "Guilty," they answered. "He deserves death!"

So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the mob, set Bar-Abba free for them; but he had Yeshua whipped and then handed him over to be executed on the stake.

The soldiers led him away inside the palace (that is, the headquarters build ing) and called together the whole battalion.

They dressed him in purple and wove thorn branches into a crown, which they put on him.

Then they began to salute him, "Hail to the King of the Jews!"

They hit him on the head with a stick, spat on him and kneeled in mock worship of him.

When they had finished ridiculing him, they took off the purple robe, put his own clothes back on him and led him away to be nailed to the execution-stake.

But one of the members of the Sanhedrin rose to his feet, a Parush named Gamli’el, a teacher of the Torah highly respected by all the people. He ordered the men put outside for a little while

and then addressed the court: “Men of Isra’el, take care what you do to these people.