Mark 14:53-72

Jesus before His Accusers

53 ¹They led Jesus away to the high priest; and all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes gathered together.

54 Peter had followed Him at a distance, ²right into ³the courtyard of the high priest; and he was sitting with the officers and ⁴warming himself at the fire.

55 Now the chief priests and the whole ⁵Council kept trying to obtain testimony against Jesus to put Him to death, and they were not finding any.

56 For many were giving false testimony against Him, but their testimony was not consistent.

57 Some stood up and began to give false testimony against Him, saying,

58 "We heard Him say, '⁶I will destroy this temple made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.' "

59 Not even in this respect was their testimony consistent.

60 The high priest stood up and came forward * and questioned Jesus, saying, "Do You not answer? What is it that these men are testifying against You?"

61 ⁷But He kept silent and did not answer. ⁸Again the high priest was questioning Him, and saying to Him, "Are You the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?"

62 And Jesus said, "I am; and you shall see ⁹THE SON OF MAN SITTING AT THE RIGHT HAND OF POWER, and ¹⁰COMING WITH THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN."

63 ¹¹Tearing his clothes, the high priest said, "What further need do we have of witnesses?

64 "You have heard the ¹²blasphemy; how does it seem to you?" And they all condemned Him to be deserving of death.

65 Some began to ¹³spit at Him, and ¹⁴to blindfold Him, and to beat Him with their fists, and to say to Him, "¹⁵Prophesy!" And the officers received Him with slaps in the face.

Peter's Denials

66 ¹⁶As Peter was below in ¹⁷the courtyard, one of the servant-girls of the high priest came,

67 and seeing Peter ¹⁸warming himself, she looked at him and said, "You also were with Jesus the ¹⁹Nazarene."

68 But he denied it, saying, "I neither know nor understand what you are talking about." And he ²⁰went out onto the porch. and a rooster crowed.871

69 The servant-girl saw him, and began once more to say to the bystanders, "This is one of them!"

70 But again ²¹he denied it. And after a little while the bystanders were again saying to Peter, "Surely you are one of them, ²²for you are a Galilean too."

71 But he began to curse and swear, "I do not know this man you are talking about!"

72 Immediately a rooster crowed a second time. And Peter remembered how Jesus had made the remark to him, "Before ²³a rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times." And he began to weep.

Cross References

• 1. Mark 14:53-65: {Matthew 26:57-68; John 18:12f, 19-24}
• 2. Mark 14:68
• 3. Matthew 26:3
• 4. Mark 14:67; John 18:18
• 5. Matthew 5:22
• 6. Matthew 26:61; Mark 15:29; John 2:19
• 7. Matthew 26:63
• 8. Mark 14:61-63: {Matthew 26:63f; Luke 22:67-71}
• 9. Psalms 110:1; Mark 13:26
• 10. Daniel 7:13
• 11. Numbers 14:6; Matthew 26:65; Acts 14:14
• 12. Leviticus 24:16
• 13. Matthew 26:67; Mark 10:34
• 14. Esther 7:8
• 15. Matthew 26:68; Luke 22:64
• 16. Mark 14:66-72: {Matthew 26:69-75; Luke 22:56-62; John 18:16-18, 25-27}
• 17. Mark 14:54
• 18. Mark 14:54
• 19. Mark 1:24
• 20. Mark 14:54
• 21. Mark 14:68
• 22. Matthew 26:73; Luke 22:59
• 23. Mark 14:30, 68

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "servants"
• [b]. Lit "light"
• [c]. Or "Sanhedrin"
• [d]. Or "sanctuary"
• [e]. Or "what do these testify?"
• [f]. Lit "says"
• [g]. I.e. the Messiah
• [h]. Or "cover over His face"
• [i]. Or "treated"
• [j]. Or "blows with rods"
• [k]. Or "forecourt, gateway"
• [l]. Later mss add "and a rooster crowed"
• [m]. Later mss add "and a rooster crowed"
• [n]. Or "put himself under a curse"
• [o]. Or "Thinking of this, he began weeping" or "Rushing out, he began weeping"