Corroboration from
Jewish Sources
On the eve of PassoverYeshua was hanged. For forty days before theexecution a herald went forth and cried, ÒHeis going to be stoned because he has practicedsorcery and enticed Israel to apostasy. Anyone who can say anything in his favor, lethim come forward and plead on his behalf.Ó But since nothing was brought forward in hisfavor he was hanged on the eve of Passover.Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 43a