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They said, "Why do we need any more witness? For we ourselves have heard from his own mouth!"
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The Self-Incriminating 'Confession'
Commentators explain that the council seized Jesus' words as a direct confession. They believed they no longer needed external witnesses because, in their view, Jesus had just condemned Himself with blasphemy from His own mouth. This statement provided the legal pretext they needed to seek the death penalty.
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For we ourselves have heard (αυτο γαρ ηκουσαμεν). They were right if Jesus is not what he claimed to be. They were eternally wrong…
Standing independent of and subsequent to the question about messiahship is the question in v.70, which serves to emphasize that Jesus is himself t…
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Reformed Baptist
And they said That is, the council, as the Persic version reads; some of the members of the sanhedrim, or the whole …
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Presbyterian
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…
