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Mark 14:61

in Mark 14

But Jesus remained silent and made no reply. Again the high priest questioned Him, “Are You the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?”

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The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and saith unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?

KJV

But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?

This verse in Mark 14

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Hilary of Poitiers

ON THE TRINITY 6.50 · Written before 367.

If you will not learn Who Christ is from those that know Him, learn it at least from those that know Him not. So shall the confession, which their ignorance is forced to make, rebuke your blasphemy. The Jews did not recognise Christ, come in the body, though they knew that the true Christ must be the Son of God. And so, when they were employing false witnesses, without one word of truth in their testimony, against Him, their priest asked Him, Art Thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?

This site's exposition

answerest thou nothing

on Mark 14:60-62

Answerest thou nothing, the high priest asks, standing up in the midst after the false witnesses had failed to agree, what is it which these witness against thee, and Jesus held his peace, fulfilling Isaiah 53:7's silent lamb. Pressed again directly, art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed, Jesus answers without qualification, I am, joining the divine name to a claim that he will sit on the right hand of power and come in the clouds of heaven, weaving together Daniel 7:13 and Psalm 110:1 into a single answer. The high priest treats the claim as blasphemy worthy of death, and the church has read this exchange ever since as Jesus' own clearest self-testimony to full deity, offered at the one moment it would cost him everything to say it.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Of the Blessed? - Θεου του ευλογητου, Or, of God the blessed one. Θεου, is added here by AK, ten others, Vulgate, and one of the Itala. It might be introduced into the text, put in Italics, if the authority of the MSS. and versions be not deemed sufficient. It appears necessary for the better understanding of the text. The adjective, however, conveys a good sense by itself, and is according to a frequent Hebrew form of speech.

on Mark 14:53-65

Solomon tells us in the book of Ecclesiastes, that one evil he has seen under the sun, is when "folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place." (Eccles. 10:6.) We can imagine no more complete illustration of his words than the state of things we have recorded in the passage before us. We see the Son of God, "in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge," arraigned as a malefactor before "the chief priests, and elders, and scribes."

The words behind it

23 Greek words

Every Greek word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • 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…

    it 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.

    • 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.”

    • 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.

    • John 19:9

      and he went back into the Praetorium. “Where are You from?” he asked. But Jesus gave no answer.

    • Matthew 27:12–14

      And when He was accused by the chief priests and elders, He gave no answer.

  • Through

    John 19:7

    “We have a law,” answered the Jews, “and according to that law He must die, because He declared Himself to be the Son of God.”

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 24:16

      Whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD must surely be put to death; the whole assembly must surely stone him, whether he is a foreign resident or native; if he blasphemes the Name, he…

    • John 5:18

      Because of this, the Jews tried all the harder to kill Him. Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

    • Matthew 26:63–66

      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.”

Where this verse is studied

About Mark

The Judas Kiss — Gustave Doré (engraving), public domain
The Judas Kiss — Gustave Doré (engraving), public domain

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Hilary of Poitiers, ON THE TRINITY 6.50; J.C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and John Calvin, Commentary on a Harmony of the Evangelists.