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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they led Jesus away to the high priest: and with him were assembled all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes. And Peter followed him afar off, even into the palace of the high priest: and he sat with the servants, and warmed himself at the fire. We may regard what was said to Jesus, by Annas and Caiaphas, as a sort of unofficial...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they led Jesus away to the high priest: and with him were assembled all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes. And Peter followed him afar off, even into the palace of the high priest: and he sat with the servants, and warmed himself at the fire. Thus we learn what a cold night it was,-that night in which the Saviour’s “sweat was as...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Peter followed him afar off,.... And did another disciple, perhaps John; John 18:15, who having somewhat recovered themselves from their fright, turned back, and followed Jesus, and the company that led him away; keeping at some distance, that they might not be observed, and exposed to danger; and proceeded till they came to Jerusalem, and to...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the chief priests, and all the council,.... Especially the former, who were of all most busy and active in this matter: sought for witness against Jesus to put him to death; on which they were determined, right or wrong; in this they went contrary to one of their own canons, which runs thus (k): "in pecuniary causes, they begin either for...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the chief priests and all the council sought for witness against Jesus to put him to death; and found none. A pretty court that was, occupied in seeking for witnesses who might enable them to condemn to death a prisoner against whom no charge had yet been formulated.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For many bare false witness against him,.... The word "false", is not expressed in the Syriac, Persic, and Ethiopic versions: which only signify, that they bore witness against him, accused him of, and laid many things to his charge: but their witness agreed not together; which showed it to be false, and so not to be admitted; for witnesses were...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together. And there arose certain, and bare false witness against him, saying, We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands. But neither so did their witness agree together. It was a rule that...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And there arose certain,.... Two false witnesses, as in Matthew 26:60, who stood up in court; for witnesses were obliged to stand, whilst they gave in their testimony: "says R. Bo, in the name of R. Hona, witnesses ought לעמוד, "to stand", whilst they bear witness; as it is said, Deuteronomy 19:17. "Both the men shall stand" (m), c.'' And bare...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
We heard him say,.... In a discourse of his, recorded in John 2:19: I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands; which was a very false testimony; for Christ did not say he would destroy any temple at all, only put the Jews on doing it; much less did he point at, or design the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But, neither so did their witness agree together. Their witness did agree together, for they both witnessed the same thing; but not so as to found upon it the charge of a capital crime against him; their witness was not so, ιση, "equal", was not answerable to their desires, nor sufficient to convict him of a capital crime, for which they could...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the high priest stood up in the midst,.... Of the sanhedrim, of which he was now president: he sat at the head of them, and Ab Beth Din, or the father of the council, at his right hand; and the rest of the council sat before him, in a semicircular form, as the half of a round corn floor, so that the president, and the father of the council,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the high priest stood up in the midst, Losing all patience, he stood up, in a furious rage at the turn things were taking.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And asked Jesus, saying, Answered thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee? But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed? This time, according to Matthew’s account, the high priest said to Jesus, “I adjure thee by the living God, that...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But he held his peace, and answered nothing,.... Knowing it would be to no purpose, and signifying hereby, that the things alleged against him were unworthy of an answer: again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed? The Vulgate Latin adds, "God": in Matthew it is "God" only, Matthew 26:63. This...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Jesus said, I am,.... That is, the Son of God; in proof of which he adds, and ye shall see the son of man sitting on the right hand of power; that is, of God, who is all power, the Lord God Almighty: and coming in the clouds of heaven; either at the destruction of Jerusalem, or at the last day, referring to the prophecy in Daniel 7:13; [See...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven. Then the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, What need we any further witnesses? Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye? And they all condemned him to be guilty of death. And some began to spit on him, and to cover...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then the high priest rent his clothes,.... As was usual upon hearing blasphemy; which he now supposed the case, or at least would have it so thought: and saith, what need we any further witnesses? or trouble ourselves to see for any more, or to hear and take the depositions of any others; [See comments on Matthew 26:65].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Ye have heard the blasphemy,.... The "manifest" blasphemy, as the Arabic version renders it; and "out of his own mouth", as the Syriac version adds, agreeably to Lu 22:71, what think ye? what sentence is to, be passed upon him? And they all condemned him to be guilty of death; excepting Joseph of Arimathea, Lu 23:51; [See comments on Matthew...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And some began to spit on him,.... The men that held him, Lu 22:6, fulfilling the prophecy in Isaiah 50:6; and to cover his face; with a veil, or linen cloth, to blindfold: him, as a person unworthy to behold the light: or rather, in order to make sport with him: and to buffet him; with their double fists; and to say unto him, prophesy. The Arabic...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And as Peter was beneath in the palace,.... Not at the lower and further end of the room, but in the lower part of it; that part in which Jesus and the sanhedrim were, being upon an advanced ground, with steps ascending to it: there cometh one of the maids of the high priest; the same that kept the door, and let him in. The Ethiopic version...