False Witnesses

A tense cluster of adult men in plain first-century Judean wool tunics, narrow fringed shawls, wrapped head-cloths, and worn leather sandals. Their palette is dust-brown, ivory, dull ultramarine, and charcoal. Uneasy faces, pointing hands, and tightly held Law scrolls distinguish them; their average builds and lowered shoulders contrast with the composed deacon and the elder council semicircle.