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A Futile Question
Commentators explain that the council's question was not a genuine search for truth. Their unbelief was described as "wilful, obstinate, and invincible." Jesus's response, "If I tell you, you will not believe," acknowledges that they had already rejected the evidence He had previously provided (as seen in John's Gospel) and were not open to belief, regardless of His answer.
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Luke
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If thou art the Christ (Ε συ ε ο Χριστος). The Messiah, they mean. The condition is the first class, assuming it to be true.
<…19th Century
Bishop
Art thou the Christ?—St. Luke passes over the earlier stages of the trial, the false-witnesses that did not agree, the ch…
Luke has already indicated that Jesus was arrested during the night (v.47) and has implied that he was confronted by the authorities while in the h…
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17th Century
Pastor
Saying, are you the Christ
The Messiah, promised and prophesied of by Moses, and all the prophets, and long expected…
17th Century
Minister
Those who condemned Jesus as a blasphemer were the vilest blasphemers. He referred them to His second coming for the full proof of His being the Ch…