Truly, though not yet taken, the sentence is already written.

This fisherman is a dead man." "But Pilate will not arrest him," I defended.

Miriam shook her head.
"Hanan will attend to that.

They will bring him before the Sanhedrim.
The sentence will be death.

They may stone him." "But the Sanhedrim has not the right to execute," I contended.
"Jesus is not a Roman," she replied.