The accounts of it in the Mishna do not correspond to those in Josephus or in the New Testament. Rabbinic sources generally portray it as a body of Torah scholars presided over by the leader of the Pharisees.
Greek sources view it as an aristocratic council led by the high priest.
Some sources describe a body of 71 members, others of 23 members. Some scholars maintain that there probably were two Sanhedrins-one political and civil, and the Great Sanhedrin, purely religious. Listing from Electric Library , a pay service. No relevant pictures or maps found. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright 2000, Columbia University Press.