The following are some of the laws of God that were flagrantly violated by the Jews in the trial of Christ: bribery (Deut. 16:19; 27:25); conspiracy and the perversion of judgment and justice (Ex. 23:1, 2, 6, 7; Lev. 19:15, 35); bearing false witness, in which matter the judges connived (Ex. 20:16); letting a murderer (Barabbas) go, thereby bringing bloodguilt upon themselves and upon the land (Num. 35:31-34; Deut. 19:11-13); mob action, or ‘following a crowd to do evil’ (Ex. 23:2, 3); in crying out for Jesus to be impaled they were violating the law that prohibited following the statutes of other nations, and also that prescribed no torture, but provided that a criminal be stoned or put to death before being hung on a stake (Lev. 18:3-5; Deut. 21:22); they accepted as king one not of their own nation but a pagan (Caesar), and rejected the King whom God had chosen (Deut. 17:14, 15); and, finally, were guilty of murder.—Ex. 20:13.