Mark 14:60

60 And the high priest stood up in the midst and asked Jesus, “Have you no answer to make? What is it that these men testify against you? ” ^[a]

Mark 14:60 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 14:60

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, could see them ^F14; for they were all before him, he being situated in the middle, right against them; so that when he stood up, he might be said to stand in the midst of them:

and asked Jesus, saying, answerest thou nothing?
For he had made no reply to the several witnesses, that came against him:

what is it which these witness against thee?
Is it true, or false? (See Gill on Matthew 26:62).

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FOOTNOTES:

F14 Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 4. sect. 3. Maimon. Hiltch. Sanhedrin, c. 1. sect. 3.

Mark 14:60 In-Context

58 “We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another, not made with hands. ’”

59 Yet even about this their testimony did not agree.

60 And the high priest stood up in the midst and asked Jesus, “Have you no answer to make? What is it that these men testify against you? ”

61 But he remained silent and made no answer. Again the high priest asked him, “Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed? ”

62 And Jesus said, “I am, and you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven. ”

Footnotes

• [a] 14:60 Or 'Have you no answer to what these men testify against you?'