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Mark 14:53

Mark 14:53
And they led Jesus away to the high priest: and with him were assembled all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

For many bare false witness against him,.... The word "false", is not expressed in the Syriac, Persic, and Ethiopic versions: which only signify, that they bore witness against him, accused him of,…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Mark 14:53-65

We have here Christ's arraignment, trial, conviction, and condemnation, in the ecclesiastical court, before the great sanhedrim, of which the high priest was president, or judge of the court; the same…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

The Jewish Trial

53. And they led Jesus away They bound Him first (Joh 18:12), and then conducted Him across the Kidron and up the road leading into the city.

to the high priest This we know from St…