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64 Jesus said to him, “It is as you said. Nevertheless, I say to you, ahereafter you will see the Son of Man bsitting at the right hand of the Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.”  
65 aThen the high priest tore his clothes, saying, “He has spoken blasphemy! What further need do we have of witnesses? Look, now you have heard His bblasphemy!  
66 What do you think?” They answered and said, a“He is deserving of death.”  
67 aThen they spat in His face and beat Him; and bothers struck Him with the palms of their hands,  
68 saying, a“Prophesy to us, Christ! Who is the one who struck You?”  

Peter Denies Jesus, and Weeps Bitterly

69 aNow Peter sat outside in the courtyard. And a servant girl came to him, saying, “You also were with Jesus of Galilee.”  
70 But he denied it before them all, saying, “I do not know what you are saying.”
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Matthew 26:66

He is worthy of death (enoxov qanatou estin). Held in the bonds of death (en, exw) as actually guilty with the genitive (qanatou). The dative expresses liability as in Matthew 5:21 (th krisei) and as eiv and the accusative (Matthew 5:22). They took the vote though it was at night and they no longer had the power of death since the Romans took it away from them. Death was the penalty of blasphemy (Leviticus 24:15). But they enjoyed taking it as their answer to his unanswerable speeches in the temple that dreadful Tuesday a few days before. It was unanimous save that Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus did not agree. They were probably absent and not even invited as being under suspicion for being secret disciples of Christ.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Matthew 26:66:

Mark 14:60
Mark 14:62
Luke 22:67
John 18:28

 

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