Held his peace (εσιωπα). Kept silent, imperfect tense. Jesus refused to answer the bluster of Caiaphas.

I adjure th…

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 …

I adjure thee by the living God... — The appeal was one of unusual solemnity. All else had failed to break through the silence, but this w…

And the high priest arose and said to him, Do you answer nothing? What is it that these witness against you? But Jesus held his peace. And the …

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,…

I adjure you by the living God. The high priest thought that this alone was a crime sufficient to condemn Christ, if he professed that he …

But Jesus held his peace
Knowing it would signify nothing, whatever he should say, they being set upon his death, th…

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: <…