The Manhattan jurors weighing the fate of the man who admits kidnapping and murdering ­6-year-old Etan Patz in 1979 sent a note to the judge Tuesday ​saying ​that they were deadlocked.

​But despite arguments from defense lawyers​ ​against sending them back ​once ​again to deliberate​, Justice Maxwell Wiley did just that.

The jurors, who have been deliberating since April 15, were stone-faced as the judge told them, “I’d like you to keep deliberating,” noting, “I am not asking any of you to violate your conscience or abandon your best judgment.”

Patz vanished from a Soho street on May 25, 1979. It was the first time that the boy’s parents had let him walk alone to the school bus stop.

​The defendant, Pedro ​Hernandez, 54, worked as a stock clerk at the bodega next to the stop on the day the boy disappeared, but was not a suspect until 2012.

Authorities picked him up after his brother-in-law called in a tip that Hernandez had confessed to killing a child.

The jurors also told the judge on April 29 that they were deadlocked — but the judge told the panel of ​seven men and ​five women to go back and try harder.