Jesus held his peace. He was silent. He knew that the evidence did not even appear to amount to anything worth a reply. He knew that they …

Do you answer nothing? — A different punctuation gives, Do you answer nothing to what these witness against you? as one q…

What was the use of answering? There really was nothing to answer except palpable and willful misrepresentation. Our Lord also knew that the counci…

St. John Chrysostom: When the Chief Priests were assembled, this gathering of thugs tried to give their conspiracy the appeara…

(59–63a) The Sanhedrin was composed of three groups: leading priests, teachers of the law, and elders. It had seventy members plus the high priest,…

And the high priest, rising up. It is certain that Christ was silent when false witnesses pressed hard upon him, not onl…

And the high priest arose and said to him
He rose up from his seat in great wrath and anger; partly being vexed, tha…

Jesus was hurried into Jerusalem. It looks ill, and bodes worse, when those who are willing to be Christ's disciples are not willing to be known as…

This section discu es Christ’s arrest; now, it discu es where He would be led, describing the place and those gathered there. He says, therefore: <…