Mark 14:53

The men who had seized Jesus led him away to the house where the supreme priest lived. All of the Jewish Council were gathering there.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And they led Jesus away to the high priest: and with him were assembled all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes.

In Context

52But, as he/I pulled away from them, he/I left behind the linen cloth in their hands, and then he/I ran away naked.

54Peter followed Jesus at a distance. He went into the courtyard of the house where the supreme priest lived, and sat there with the men who guarded the house of the supreme priest. He was warming himself beside a fire.

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Cross References

Matthew 26:3At the same time the chief priests and the Jewish elders gathered in the home of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas.

Mark 15:1Very early in the morning the chief priests met together with the rest of the Jewish council, in order to decide how to accuse Jesus before the Roman governor. Their guards tied Jesus’ hands again. They took him to the house of Pilate, the governor, and they started to accuse him, saying “ Jesus is claiming that he is a king!!”

John 18:12Then the troop of soldiers, along with their commander and the Jewish Temple guards, seized Jesus. They tied his hands behind his back.

Acts 4:5The next day the supreme priest summoned the other chief priests, the teachers of the Jewish laws, and the other members of the Jewish Council, and they gathered together in one place in Jerusalem.

Matthew Henry on Mark 14:44-53

The Treachery of Judas. 43 And immediately, while he yet spake, cometh Judas, one of the twelve, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders. 44 And he that betrayed him had given them a token, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he; take him, and lead him away safely. 45 And as soon as he was come, he goeth straightway to him, and saith, Master, master; and kissed him. 46 And they laid their hands on him, and took him. 47 And one of them… Read the whole commentary →

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