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τὸ τέλος.
5ο. Οἱ δὲ ἀρχιερεῖς καὶ of πρεσβύτεροι1 καὶ τὸ συνέδριον
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a Ch. xv. το.
ὅλον ἐζήτουν "ψευδοµαρτυρίαν κατὰ τοῦ Ιησοῦ, ὅπως αὐτὸν θανατώ- b Ch. xii. 43.
~ c σωσι, 60. cat? οὐχ “eipov- καὶ πολλῶν *Weudopaptipwy προσελ-
1 Cor. xv. 15.
θόντων, οὐχ εὗρον. ὕστερον δὲ προσελθόντες δύο ψευδοµάρτυρες ® 61. rg he
εἶπον, “Οὗτος ἔφη, Δύναμαι καταλῦσαι τὸν ναὸν τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ * διὰ
ἳ a de a > 5 a > F γι τριων Ὄηὖμ.ε ρω» OLKOOOLN GAL αυτον.
9 ΑΕ τω κε 208 Πα ΄ ε κ 4 4 9 a . εἶπεν αὐτῷ, “ Οὐδὲν ἀποκρίνῃη; τί οὗτοί σου * καταμαρτυροῦσιν ;
17. Gal.
62. Καὶ ἀναστὰς 6 ἀρχιερεὺς e Ch. xxvii.
13. Mk. χιν. 6ο.
I1SSBDL 6ο it. vg., Egypt. verss., omit ot πρεσβντεροι, which comes in from
ver. 57. ° For the passage και ουκ ευρον . . .
ουκ ευρον SYBCL verss. have και ουκ ενρον
πολλων προσελθοντων ψευδοµαρτνρων (Tisch., W.H., Ws.).
> SBL omit ψευδοµαρτυρες.
judicial iniquity can be perpetrated quietly.—Ver. 58 is the prelude to the story of Peter’s denial, which is resumed at ver. 69 after the account of the trial.
Similarly in Mk. Lk. gives the story’
without interruption.—paxpd@ev, from afar: Peter followed his Master, having after a while recovered from the general panic ; more courageous than the rest, yet not courageous enough; just enough -of the hero in him to bring him into the region of temptation.—éws τ. av. Cf. Mk., ver. 54.—idetv τὸ τέλος, to sce the end; a good Greek phrase. Motives: curiosity and honest interest in the fate of his loved Master. Jerome puts these ‘alternatively: ‘‘vel amore discipuli vel humana curiositate”’.
Vv. 59-68. The trial.—Ver. 59. τε “συν. ὅλον, the whole Sanhedrim, cf. πάντες in Heb. iii. 16, the statement in both cases admitting of a few exceptions. — WevSopaptupiav, false evidence, of course in the first place from the evan- gelist’s point of view (µαρτυρίαν in Mk.), but substantially true to the fact. They wanted evidence for a foregone conclusion ; no matter though it was false if it only looked true and hung fairly well together. Jesus was apprehended to be put to death, and the trial was only a blind, a-form rendered necessary by the fact that there was a Procurator to be satisfied.— Ver. 60. οὐχ εὗρον: they found not false witness that looked plausible and justified capital punishment,— πολλῶν π. W.: it was not for want of witnesses of a kind; many offered them- selves and made statements, but they did not serve the purpose: either trivial or inconsistent ; conceivable in the circum- stances: coming forward on the spur of the moment from the crowd in answer ‘to an invitation from prejudiced judges
4 B omits αντον (W.H.).
eager for damnatory evidence. Those who responded deserved to be stigma- tised as false. None but base, mean creatures would have borne evidence in such a case.—8vo, only two had anything to say worth serious attention.—Ver. 61. οὗτος ἔφη, this person said: then follows a version of a word really spoken by Jesus, of astartling character, concerning destroying and rebuilding the temple. An inaccurate report of so remarkable a saying might easily go abroad, and the version given by the two witnesses seems from xxvii. 40 to have been current. They might, therefore, have borne wrong evi- dence without being false in intention.— δύναμαι, in an emphatic position, makes Jesus appear as one boasting of preter- natural power, and τὸν ναὺν τοῦ θεοῦ, as irreverently parading His power in connection with a sacred object.—8ra τ. ἡ», literally throug’ three days = after : for similar use of the preposition, vide Gal. ii. 1. The meaning is: after three days I will complete the rebuilding, so that διὰ in effect is=év in John ii. 19.— Ver. 62. ἀναστὰς 6 ἀρ.: the high priest rose up not because he felt the evidence just led to be very serious, rather in irri- tation because the most damaging state- ments amounted to nothing more serious. A man could not be sentenced to death for a boastful word (τοξις).-- οὐδὲν ἀποκρίνῃ . . . καταμαρτυροῦσιν: either one question as in Vulg.: “nihil τε- spondes ad ea quae isti adversum te testificantur ?’’ or two asin A. V. and R. V., so also Weizsacker: answerest Thou nothing? what do these witness against Thee? It is an attempt of a baffled man to draw Jesus into explana- tions about the saying which will make it more damaging as evidence against Him. What about this pretentious word