{He is worthy of death} (enochos thanatou estin). Held in
the bonds of death (en, ech(935c)) as actually guilty with the
genitive (	hanatou). The dative expresses liability as in  Mt
5:21  (	(8869) krisei) and as eis and the accusative ( Mt 5:22 ).
They took the vote though it was at night and they no longer had
the power of death since the Romans took it away from them. Death
was the penalty of blasphemy ( Le 24:15 ). But they enjoyed
taking it as their answer to his unanswerable speeches in the
temple that dreadful Tuesday a few days before. It was unanimous
save that Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus did not agree. They
were probably absent and not even invited as being under
suspicion for being secret disciples of Christ.