Luke 22:68

68 and if I ask [you], you will never answer!

Luke 22:68 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 22:68

And if I also ask you
Or enter into a discourse on this subject, and require an answer to the arguments, proving me to be the Messiah, or desire to know what objections can be made thereunto:

you will not answer me:
fairly and directly, or go into a serious and sober conversation on this head: nor let me "go"; or dismiss me, though I should appear to be the Messiah, or ever so free from the charge of blasphemy and sedition; you are resolved, right or wrong, to detain me in bonds, and take away my life; so that it signifies nothing saying any thing to you.

Luke 22:68 In-Context

66 And when day came, the council of elders of the people gathered, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away to their Sanhedrin,

67 saying, "If you are the Christ, tell us!" But he said to them, "If I tell you, you will never believe,

68 and if I ask [you], you will never answer!

69 But from now on the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God."

70 So they all said, "Are you then the Son of God?" And he said to them, "You say that I am."

Footnotes

• [a]. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation