Matthew 26:65
Then the high priest tore his garments, saying, He has blasphemed. What further need have we of witnesses? Behold, now ye heard his blasphemy.
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66What does it seem to you? Having answered, they said, He is deserving of death.
Cross References
Leviticus 21:20or crook-backed, or a dwarf, or who has a blemish in his eye, or is scurvy, or scabbed, or has his testicles broken.
1 Kings 21:10And set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them bear witness against him, saying, Thou cursed God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him to death.
Jeremiah 36:24And they were not afraid, nor tore their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants who heard all these words.
Mark 14:63And the high priest having torn his clothes, he says, What further need have we of witnesses?
John 10:33The Jews answered him, saying, We stone thee not about a good work, but about blasphemy, and because thou, being a man, make thyself God.
Acts 14:14But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard, having torn their garments, they rushed into the crowd, crying out
Matthew Henry on Matthew 26:58-69
Christ in the High Priest's Palace. 57 And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled. 58 But Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest's palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end. 59 Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death; 60 But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false… Read the whole commentary →