Mesorat%20hashas for Sanhedrin 31:10

ולא את כהן גדול: מנהני מילי אמר רב אדא בר אהבה דאמר קרא (שמות יח, כב) כל הדבר הגדול יביאו אליך דבריו של גדול

which is determined by a court of twenty-three? — 17 Resh Lakish therefore said: It is derived from the use of dabar [word] employed here,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The false prophet: ibid. XVIII, 20, The prophet that shall speak a word. The elder: ibid. XVII, 10, And thou shalt do according the word. The need of seventy-one for the false prophet, therefore, is derived from the passage relating to the rebelliousness of the elder, which must be directed against the major Sanhedrin. ');">¹⁸</span> and in reference to his [the elder's] rebelliousness. But let us, in turn, deduce [that the execution of] the rebellious elder [is by seventy-one] by employing the analogy of hazadah written therein and in the case of the false prophet.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., just as the rule, that the judgment of the false prophet must be by seventy-one, is derived from an analogy of the two dabars, so, on the other hand, we may deduce that the execution of the elder must be by seventy-one, from an analogy of the two hazadahs. ');">¹⁹</span>

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