Matthew 26:60 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 26:60

But they did not find any, though many false witnesses came forward. Finally two came forward

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ASV

and they found it not, though many false witnesses came. But afterward came two,

KJV

But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses,

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Commentary

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Thomas Aquinas

Commentary on Matthew (1274)

And they found none, whereas many false witnesses had come in. Behold the failure, in which the innocence of Christ is designated, so that he could say: I have walked in my innocence. For they had always laid snares for Christ, but they found nothing …

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

Yet found they none - On whose evidence they could condemn him to die. At last came two false witnesses - Such they were, although part of what they said was true; because our Lord did not speak some of those words at all; nor any of them in this sense.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Though many false witnesses came - There is an unaccountable confusion in the MSS. in this verse: without stating the variations, which may be seen in Griesbach, I shall give that which I believe to be the genuine sense of the evangelist.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Matthew (1856)

We read, in these verses, how our Lord Jesus Christ was brought before Caiaphas, the high priest, and solemnly pronounced guilty. It was fitting that it should be so. The great day of atonement was come: the wondrous type of the scapegoat was about to be completely fulfilled. It was only suitable that the Jewish high priest should do his part, and declare sin to be upon the head of the victim, before he was led forth to be crucified ( Leviticus 16:21 ). May we ponder these things and understand them.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	but	G2532 →
οὐχ	ouch	not any	G3756 →
εὗρον	heuron	they found	G2147 →
πολλῶν	pollōn	of many	G4183 →
προσελθόντων	proselthontōn	having come forward as	G4334 →
ψευδομαρτύρων	pseudomarturōn	false witnesses	G5575 →
ὕστερον	husteron	Finally	G5306 →
δὲ	de	then	G1161 →
προσελθόντες	proselthontes	having come forward	G4334 →
δύο	duo	two	G1417 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 27:12
Do not hand me over to the will of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence.
leads to
- Matthew 26:59–60
  Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against Jesus in order to put Him to death.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Psalms 31:8
  You have not delivered me to the enemy; You have set my feet in the open.
- Psalms 35:11
  Hostile witnesses come forward; they make charges I know nothing about.
Through
Deuteronomy 19:15
A lone witness is not sufficient to establish any wrongdoing or sin against a man, regardless of what offense he may have committed. A matter must be established by the testimony of two or…
leads to
- Numbers 35:30
  If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be put to death on the testimony of the witnesses. But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of a…
- Deuteronomy 17:6
  On the testimony of two or three witnesses a man shall be put to death, but he shall not be executed on the testimony of a lone witness.
- 2 Corinthians 13:1
  This is the third time I am coming to you. “Every matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.”
- Hebrews 10:28
  Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
- Matthew 18:16