The Mishnah taught that the community was to execute a false prophet within the meaning of — one who prophesied what the prophet had not heard or what was not told to the prophet. But Heaven alone would see to the death of the person who suppressed a prophecy or disregarded the words of a prophet, or a prophet who transgressed the prophet's own word. For in , God says, ""I" will require it of him." The Mishnah taught that only a court of 71 members (the Great Sanhedrin) could try a false prophet.