Matthew 26:63 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 26:63

But Jesus remained silent. Then the high priest said to Him, “I charge You under oath by the living God: Tell us if You are the Christ, the Son of God.”

BSB

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ASV

But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou art the Christ, the Son of God.

KJV

But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God.

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Commentary

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Jerome

Commentary on Matthew (420)

(Verse 63.) And the high priest said to him, I adjure you by the living God that you tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God. Why do you swear, most wicked of priests, to accuse rather than to believe? If to accuse, others argue: condemn the silent one. If to believe, why did you not want to believe the one confessing?

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

I adjure thee by the living God - I put thee to thy oath. To this solemn adjuration Christ immediately replies, because he is now called on, in the name of God, to bear another testimony to the truth. The authority of God in the most worthless magistrate should be properly respected. However necessary our Lord saw it to be silent, when the accusations were frivolous, and the evidence contradictory, he felt no disposition to continue this silence, when questioned concerning a truth, for which he came into the world to shed his blood.

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

28 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
δὲ	de	And	G1161 →
Ἰησοῦς	Iēsous	Jesus	G2424 →
ἐσιώπα.	esiōpa	was silent.	G4623 →
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
ἀρχιερεὺς	archiereus	high priest	G749 →
εἶπεν	eipen	said	G2036 →
αὐτῷ·	autō	to Him;	G846 →
ἐξορκίζω	exorkizō	I adjure	G1844 →
σε	se	you	G4771 →
κατὰ	kata	by	G2596 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
θεοῦ	theou	God	G2316 →
τοῦ	tou	the	G3588 →
ζῶντος	zōntos	living	G2198 →
ἵνα	ina	that	G2443 →
ἡμῖν	hēmin	us	G3165 →
εἴπῃς	eipēs	may you tell	G2036 →
εἰ	ei	if	G1487 →
σὺ	su	You yourself	G4771 →
εἶ	ei	are	G1510 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
χριστὸς	christos	Christ	G5547 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
υἱὸς	huios	Son	G5207 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
θεοῦ.	theou	of God.	G2316 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

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
Matthew 16:16
Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
leads to
- John 11:27
  “Yes, Lord,” she answered, “I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Matthew 14:33
  Then those who were in the boat worshiped Him, saying, “Truly You are the Son of God!”
- 1 John 4:15
  If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
- Matthew 27:54
  When the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and all that had happened, they were terrified and said, “Truly this was the Son of God.”
- 1 Timothy 4:10
  To this end we labor and strive, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of everyone, and especially of those who believe.
Through
Isaiah 53:7
He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not…
leads to
- Acts 8:32–33
  The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
- 1 Peter 2:23
  When they heaped abuse on Him, He did not retaliate; when He suffered, He made no threats, but entrusted Himself to Him who judges justly.
- Mark 14:61
  But Jesus remained silent and made no reply. Again the high priest questioned Him, “Are You the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?”