Jewish%20thought for Sanhedrin 178:20

וליגמר ממסית דנין מסית רבים ממסית רבים ואין דנין מסית רבים ממסית יחיד אדרבה דנין הדיוט מהדיוט ואין דנין הדיוט מנביא

Our Rabbis taught; A prophet who seduced [people to idolatry] is stoned; R. Simeon said; He is strangled. The seducers of a seduced city are stoned; R. Simeon said: They are strangled. 'A prophet who seduced is stoned'. What is the reason of the Rabbis? — Similarity of law is learnt from the employment of 'seduction' here and in the case of a mesith:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Prophet: Because he hath spoken&nbsp;…to seduce thee from the way which thy Lord thy God commanded thee to walk in (Deut. XIII, 6); mesith: because he hath sought to seduce thee from the Lord thy God (Ibid. 11). ');">²⁷</span> just as there execution is by stoning, so here too. But R. Simeon maintained: [Simple] death is provided for in this case,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 6: And that prophet&nbsp;… shall be put to death. ');">²⁸</span>

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