Luke 22:65-67
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65 And they reviled him in saying many other things against him.
Jesus Before the Sanhedrin.[a] 66 (A)When day came the council of elders of the people met, both chief priests and scribes,(B) and they brought him before their Sanhedrin.[b] 67 They said, “If you are the Messiah, tell us,” but he replied to them, “If I tell you, you will not believe,(C)
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- 22:66–71 Luke recounts one daytime trial of Jesus (Lk 22:66–71) and hints at some type of preliminary nighttime investigation (Lk 22:54–65). Mark (and Matthew who follows Mark) has transferred incidents of this day into the nighttime interrogation with the result that there appear to be two Sanhedrin trials of Jesus in Mark (and Matthew); see note on Mk 14:53.
- 22:66 Sanhedrin: the word is a Hebraized form of a Greek word meaning a “council,” and refers to the elders, chief priests, and scribes who met under the high priest’s leadership to decide religious and legal questions that did not pertain to Rome’s interests. Jewish sources are not clear on the competence of the Sanhedrin to sentence and to execute during this period.
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