Sanhedrin 43a says Yeshu was hanged, had five disciples with different names, and was tried by a Jewish court after a forty-day search for defense witnesses. None of that matches the Gospels. Isn’t this a different Yeshu?

Every one of those discrepancies is real, which is why scholars debate whether each Yeshu passage refers to Jesus of Nazareth. Two details still point toward him: hanged was standard rabbinic language for crucifixion, and execution on the eve of Passover matches John’s chronology exactly. The mismatches are best read as a hostile tradition garbling and reshaping a memory for polemical purposes, centuries after the fact. This passage is backup with clear limits, and nothing here rests on it.