Mark 14:59

Mark 14:59

57 Then some rose up and bore false witness against Him, saying,

58 “We heard Him say, ^a‘I will destroy this temple made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.’ ”

59 But not even then did their testimony agree.

60 ^aAnd the high priest stood up in the midst and asked Jesus, saying, “Do You answer nothing? What is it these men testify against You?”

61 But ^aHe kept silent and answered nothing. ^bAgain the high priest asked Him, saying to Him, “Are You the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?”

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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But neither so did their witness agree together—that is, not even as to so brief a speech, consisting of but a few words, was there such a concurrence in their mode of reporting it as to make out a decent case. In such a charge everything depended on the very terms alleged to have been used. For every one must see that a very slight turn, either way, given to such words, would make them either something like indictable matter, or else a ridiculous ground for a criminal charge—would either give them a colorable pretext for the charge of impiety which they were bent on making out, or else make the whole saying appear, on the worst view that could be taken of it, as merely some mystical or empty boast.

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