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Commentaries on Luke 22:71

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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

And they said,.... That is, the council, as the Persic version reads; some of the members of the sanhedrim, or the whole body of them: what need we any further witness? or give any further trouble in getting witnesses, and hearing them: for we ourselves have heard of his own mouth: his blasphemy, and what amounts to a sufficient charge of that kind; upon which they all pronounced him worthy of...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

All the evangelists, whatever they omit, give us a particular account of the death and resurrection of Christ, because he died for our sins and rose for our justification, this evangelist as fully as any, and with many circumstances and passages added which we had not before. In this chapter we have, I. The plot to take Jesus, and Judas's coming into it, ver. 1-6. II. Christ's eating the passover...

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions

Charles H. Spurgeon

And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote him. And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face, and asked him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that smote thee? And many other things blasphemously spake they against him. And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the chief priests and the scribes came together, and led him into their council, saying, Art thou the...