53And they led Jesus away to the high priest: and with him were assembled all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled. …
Then the band and the captain and officers of the Jews took Jesus, and bound him, …
Then took they him, and led him, and brought him into the high priest's house. And Peter followed afar off. …
The high priest then asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his doctrine. …
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 53-65)We have here Christ’s arraignment, trial, conviction, and condemnation, in the ecclesiastical court, before the great sanhedrim, of which the high priest was president, or judge of the court; the same Caiaphas that had lately adjudged it expedient he should be put to death, guilty or not guilty (John 11:50), and who therefore might justly be excepted against as partial. I. Christ is hurried away t…
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