Gittin, fol. 57, col. 1. Rabbi Yoshua, the son of Korcha, relates: " An aged inhabitant of Jerusalem once told me that in this valley two hundred and eleven thousand myriads were massacred by Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, and in Jerusalem itself he slaughtered upon one stone ninety-four myriads, so that the blood flowed till it touched the blood of Zachariah, that it might be fulfilled which is said (Hos. ii. 4), And blood toucheth blood. ' When he saw the blood of Zachariah, and noticed that it was boiling and agitated, he asked, i What is this? and he was told that it was the spilled blood of the sacrifices.
Then he ordered blood from the sacrifices to be brought and compared it with the blood of the murdered prophet, when, finding the one unlike the other, he said, "If ye tell me the truth, well and good; if not, I will comb your flesh with iron currycombs! Upon this they confessed, ( He was a prophet, and because he rebuked us on matters of religion, we arose and killed him, and it is now some years since his blood has been in the restless condition in which thou seest it.* <Well,) said he, (I will pacify him.' He then brought the greater and lesser Sanhedrin