57And there arose certain, and bare false witness against him, saying,
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But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses, …
And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law: …
And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.
Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things? …
Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
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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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