More Discussions for this daf
1. Good eyesight and saving the witnesses 2. Ein Onshin Min ha'Din 3. R. Yehuda Ben Tabbai and R. Shimon Ben Shetach
4. Witnesses Plotting 5. Who Do the Eidim Zomemim Pay 6. Makos 005: Hargu Ein Neheragin
7. Tana Beribi 8. Who Do the Eidim Zomemim Pay 9. Ka'asher Zamam by Malkos
10. Who Do the Eidim Zomemim Pay 11. v'Hitzilu ha'Eidah 12. Meshalshin b'Makos
13. After Gmar Din but before He is Put to Death 14. Shem Eidim Zomemim 15. Part of a Group Found To Be Eidim Zomemim
16. Edim Zomemim in Dinei Mamonos 17. Miracles and Halachah 18. Punishing Edim Zomemim
19. The Gemara answers by saying it's a good question 20. Edim Zomemim dividing their punishment 21. Edim Zomemim
22. Rashi and Tosfos 23. Judges 24. משלשין בממון
 DAF DISCUSSIONS - MAKOS 5
1. Chaim S. asks:

How can Rebbi Yehudah be so sure that it was a plot? (They could say something like we saw yu at the Yankees game!)

Chaim S., New York

2. The Kollel replies:

Rebbi Yehudah is simply saying that since the possibility exists that there is a conspiracy here, we should not kill more than one pair of witnesses who become Eidim Zomimim in any single case. Otherwise, one can have the possibility of people being Mazim anyone who is Mazim their friend, and the killing will continue. Rebbi Yehudah would rather err on the side of caution and not keep killing people due to this possibility. (This is a simplification, but should be enough to answer your question. For more in depth discussion of this matter, see the Tosfos Yom Tov on the Mishnah.)

All the best,

Yaakov Montrose