<The Gemara asks: What is the relevance of akhnai, a snake, in this context? Rav Yehuda said that Shmuel said: It is characterized in that manner due to the fact that the Rabbis surrounded it with their statements like this snake, which often forms a coil when at rest, and deemed it impure. The Sages taught: On that day, when they discussed this matter, Rabbi Eliezer answered all possible answers in the world to support his opinion, but the Rabbis did not accept his explanations from him.
<After failing to convince the Rabbis logically, Rabbi Eliezer said to them: If the halakha is in accordance with my opinion, this carob tree will prove it. The carob tree was uprooted from its place one hundred cubits, and some say four hundred cubits. The Rabbis said to him: One does not cite halakhic proof from the carob tree. Rabbi Eliezer then said to them: If the halakha is in accordance with my opinion, the stream will prove it. The water in the stream turned backward and began flowing in the opposite direction. They said to him: One does not cite halakhic proof from a stream.
<Rabbi Eliezer then said to them: If the halakha is in accordance with my opinion, the walls of the study hall will prove it. The walls of the study hall leaned inward and began to fall. Rabbi Jesus scolded the walls and said to them: If Torah scholars are contending with each other in matters of halakha, what is the nature of your involvement in this dispute? The Gemara relates: The walls did not fall because of the deference due Rabbi Jesus, but they did not straighten because of the deference due Rabbi Eliezer, and they still remain leaning.
<Rabbi Eliezer then said to them: If the halakha is in accordance with my opinion, Heaven will prove it. A Divine Voice emerged from Heaven and said: Why are you differing with Rabbi Eliezer, as the halakha is in accordance with his opinion in every place that he expresses an opinion?
<Rabbi Jesus stood on his feet and said: It is written: “It is not in heaven”. The Gemara asks: What is the relevance of the phrase “It is not in heaven” in this context? Rabbi Yirmeya says: Since the Torah was already given at Mount Sinai, we do not regard a Divine Voice, as You already wrote at Mount Sinai, in the Torah: “After a majority to incline”. Since the majority of Rabbis disagreed with Rabbi Eliezer’s opinion, the halakha is not ruled in accordance with his opinion. The Gemara relates: Years after, Rabbi Natan encountered Elijah the prophet and said to him: What did the Holy One, Blessed be He, do at that time, when Rabbi Jesus issued his declaration? Elijah said to him: The Holy One, Blessed be He, smiled and said: My children have triumphed over Me; My children have triumphed over Me.
<Bava Metzia 59b
This is why they hated Jesus. God in the very flesh telling them how it is. They hated God so they killed. They literally admit in their Talmid that they would rather follow their man made traditions than God.
>You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.”
>And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition!
>For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’
>But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban”’ (that is, given to God)—
>then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother,
>thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.”
>Mark 7:8-13
>Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you: Moses, on whom you have set your hope.
>For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me.
>But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”
>John 5:45-47