Matthew Chapter 26 verse 62 Holy Bible
And the high priest stood up, and said unto him, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee?
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And the high priest got up and said to him, Have you no answer? what is it which these say against you?
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And the high priest standing up said to him, Answerest thou nothing? What do these witness against thee?
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And the high priest arose, and said unto him, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee?
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The high priest stood up, and said to him, "Have you no answer? What is this that these testify against you?"
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And the chief priest having stood up, said to him, `Nothing thou dost answer! what do these witness against thee?
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 62. - The high priest [Caiaphas] arose. As if in indignation at the outrage offered by this vaunt to Jehovah and the sanctuary. But the indignation was assumed and theatrical; for even this charge had broken down, owing to the disagreement of the two witnesses (Mark 14:59). Something more definite must be secured before any formal appeal could be made to the Sanhedrin or the procurator. Answerest thou nothing? The angry president endeavours to browbeat the Prisoner, and to make him criminate himself by intemperate language or indiscreet admission. What is it which these witness against thee? The Received Text (followed here by Westcott and Hort) divides the high priest's words into two questions, as in the Authorized Version. The Vulgate unites the two into one, Nihil respondes ad ea quae isti adversum te testificantur? Alford, Tischendorf, etc., print, Οὐδὲν ἀποκρίνῃ τί οῦτοί σου καταμαρτυροῦσιν; "Answerest thou not what it is which these witness against thee?" Caiaphas professes a desire to hear Christ's explanation of the words just alleged against him.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(62) Answerest thou nothing?--A different punctuation gives, Answerest Thou nothing to what these witness against Thee? as one question. The question implies a long-continued silence, while witness after witness were uttering their clumsy falsehoods, the effect of which it is not easy to realise without a more than common exercise of what may be called dramatic imagination. I remember hearing from a distinguished scholar who had seen the Ammergau Passion-mystery, that, as represented there, it came upon him with a force which he had never felt before. In the silence itself we may perhaps trace a deliberate fulfilment of the prophecy of Isaiah 53:7. In 1Peter 2:23 we find a record of the impression which that fulfilment made on the disciples.What is it . . .?--The question was clearly put, as it had been before Annas (John 18:19), with the intention of drawing out something that would ensure condemnation.
