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The high priest stood up, and answered him, "Have you no answer? What is this that these testify against you?"
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A Question of Frustration
Commentators like Gill and Aquinas note that the high priest stood up out of "great wrath and anger." The case built on false witnesses was failing, so his question was not a genuine search for truth but a frustrated, impatient attempt to trap Jesus into incriminating himself.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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 …
19th Century
Anglican
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Baptist
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 …
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16th Century
Protestant
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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13th Century
Catholic
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