Answer #10

           If someone spoke well of Jesus in the hearing of the Pharisees, they would threaten to expel him from the synagogue. If a person were expelled from the synagogue, he would be completely shunned by everyone including his parents and be treated as though he was dead. If he wanted to be excepted back into the synagogue, he would have to go around unkempt, unwashed and unshaved so as to appear loathsome to the people for some time. If he died while "unsynagogued," he would not be given a decent burial, but his body could be thrown into the fiery garbage dump, Gehenna. If his body was put into a coffin, the Pharisees required the people to line up and throw stones at the coffin before he was buried.