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of yours; is it true that you said it, and what does it mean ?—Ver. 63. ἐσιώπα: Jesus seeing the drift of the questions gave the high priest no assistance, but continued silent.—éfopxilw (éfopxéw more common in classics), The high priest now takes a new line, seeing that there is no chance of conviction any other way. He puts Jesus on His oath as to the cardinal question of Messiahship.— ei σὺ εἶ 6 Χριστὸς, etc.: not two ques- tions but one, Son of God being exe- getical of the title Christ. If He was the one He was the other ifso facto.— Ver. 64. σὺ εἶπας: in current phrase= Iam. Was Jesus morally bound to an- swer? Why not continue silent? First, the whole ministry of Jesus had made the question inevitable. Second, the high priest was the proper person to ask it. Third, it was an important oppor- tunity for giving expression to His Mes- sianic self-consciousness. Fourth, silence would, in the cirumstances, have amount- ed to ἀεπια].--- πλὴν not=“ neverthe- less,” but rather = nay more: I have something more startling to tell you. What follows describes the future of the Son of Man in apocalyptic terms, and is meant to suggest the thought: “the time is coming when you and I shall change places; I then the Judge, you the prisoners at the bar”’.
Vv. 65-68. τότε: At last they have, or think they have, Him at their mercy. —8.éppnéev, etc.: a very imposing act as the expression of true emotion ; in reality a theatrical action demanded by custom and performed in accordance with rule: length and locality of rent, the garments to be rent (the nether ; all of them, even
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if there were ten, said the Rabbinical rule: note the plural here, τὰ ἵμάτια), all fixed. A common custom among Eastern peoples. It was highly proper that holy men should seem shocked immeasurably by ‘blasphemy ”. — ἐβλασφήμησεν : Was it blasphemy for a man to call Him- self Messiah in a country where a mes- siah was expected? Obviously not. It might be to call oneself Messiah falsely. But that was a point for careful and de- liberate examination, nct to be taken for granted. The judgment of the high priest and the obsequious vote of the Sanhedrim were manifestly premature. But it does not follow from this that the evangelist’s account of the trial is un- historical (Brandt, p. 62). The Sanhe- drists, as reported, behave suo more.— Ver. 66. €voxos θανάτου: death the penalty of blasphemy, Lev. xxiv. 15, and of being a false prophet, Deut. xviii. 20. —Vv. 67-68: to judicial injustice suc- ceed personal indignities: spitting in the face (ἐνέπτυσαν), smiting with the fist (ἐκολάφισαν, not Attic, κονδυλίζω used instead), or with the open hand (ἐρράπισαν, originally to beat with rods). Euthy. Zig. distinguishes the two last words thus: κολαφισμὸς is a stroke on the neck with the hollow of the hand so as to make a noise, ῥαπισμὸς a stroke on the face. The perpetrators of these outrages in Mk. are τιγὲς and οἱ ὑπη- pérat, the former word presumably point- ing to some Sanhedrists. In Mt. the connection suggests Sanhedrists alone. Incredible that they should condescend to so unworthy pro eedings, one is in- clined to say. Yet it was night, there was intense dislike, and they might feel