They do not execute him in the court of his town nor in the court at Yavneh. Rather, they bring him up to the High Court in Jerusalem and guard him until the festival and execute him during the festival, as it is stated: And the entire nation shall hear and shall fear, and they shall no longer sin willfully; [these are] the words of R’ Akiva. R’ Yehudah says: They do not delay this person’s judgment. Rather, they execute him immediately and write and send messengers to all places [saying], “So-and-so was sentenced to death by the court.”

A false prophet —- [is] one who prophesies concerning that which he did not hear or that which was not said to him; he is executed at the hands of man. But one who suppresses his prophecy, and one who disregards the words of a prophet, and a prophet who transgresses his own words —- are executed at the hand of Heaven, as it is stated: I shall demand it from him.