Susanna 48-50

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁴⁸ Taking his stand among them he said, ‘Are you such fools, O Israelites, as to condemn a daughter of Israel without examination and without learning the facts? ⁴⁹ Return to court, for these men have given false evidence against her.’

⁵⁰ So all the people hurried back. And the rest of the^[a] elders said to him, ‘Come, sit among us and inform us, for God has given you the standing of an elder.’