Deuteronomy 25:1-2

25:1 If controversy arises between people, ¹  they should go to court for judgment. When the judges ²  hear the case, they shall exonerate ³  the innocent but condemn ⁴  the guilty. 25:2 Then, ⁵  if the guilty person is sentenced to a beating, ⁶  the judge shall force him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of blows his wicked behavior deserves. ⁷ 

John 7:51

7:51 “Our law doesn’t condemn ⁸  a man unless it first hears from him and learns ⁹  what he is doing, does it?” ¹⁰ 

John 18:24

18:24 Then Annas sent him, still tied up, ¹¹  to Caiaphas the high priest. ¹² 

[25:1]  ¹ tn Heb “men.”

[25:1]  ² tn Heb “they”; the referent (the judges) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[25:1]  ³ tn Heb “declare to be just”; KJV, NASB “justify the righteous”; NAB, NIV “acquitting the innocent.”

[25:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “declare to be evil”; NIV “condemning the guilty (+ party NAB).”

[25:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “and it will be.”

[25:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “if the evil one is a son of smiting.”

[25:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “according to his wickedness, by number.”

[7:51]  ⁸ tn Grk “judge.”

[7:51]  ⁹ tn Grk “knows.”

[7:51]  ¹⁰ tn Questions prefaced with μή (mh) in Greek anticipate a negative answer. This can sometimes be indicated by using a “tag” at the end in English (here the tag is “does it?”).

[18:24]  ¹¹ tn Or “still bound.”

[18:24]  ¹² sn Where was Caiaphas the high priest located? Did he have a separate palace, or was he somewhere else with the Sanhedrin? Since Augustine (4th century) a number of scholars have proposed that Annas and Caiaphas resided in different wings of the same palace, which were bound together by a common courtyard through which Jesus would have been led as he was taken from Annas to Caiaphas. This seems a reasonable explanation, although there is no conclusive evidence.