Mark - 14:64



64 You have heard the blasphemy! What do you think?" They all condemned him to be worthy of death.

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Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye? And they all condemned him to be guilty of death.
Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye? And they all condemned him to be worthy of death.
Ye heard the evil speaking, what appeareth to you?' and they all condemned him to be worthy of death,
You all heard his impious words. What is your judgement?" Then with one voice they condemned Him as deserving of death.
His words against God have come to your ears: what is your opinion? And they all said it was right for him to be put to death.
You have heard the blasphemy. How does it seem to you?" And they all condemned him, as guilty unto death.
"You heard his blasphemy? What is your verdict?" They all condemned him, declaring that he deserved death.

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Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Ye have heard the blasphemy,.... The "manifest" blasphemy, as the Arabic version renders it; and "out of his own mouth", as the Syriac version adds, agreeably to Luke 22:71,
what think ye? what sentence is to, be passed upon him?
And they all condemned him to be guilty of death; excepting Joseph of Arimathea, Luke 23:51; See Gill on Matthew 26:66.

Ye have heard the blasphemy--(See John 10:33). In Luke (Luke 22:71), "For we ourselves have heard of His own mouth"--an affectation of religious horror. (Also see on John 18:28.)
what think ye?--"Say what the verdict is to be."
they all condemned him to be guilty of death--or of a capital crime, which blasphemy against God was according to the Jewish law (Leviticus 24:16). Yet not absolutely all; for Joseph of Arimathea, "a good man and a just," was one of that Council, and "he was not a consenting party to the counsel and deed of them," for that is the strict sense of the words of Luke 23:50-51. Probably he absented himself, and Nicodemus also, from this meeting of the Council, the temper of which they would know too well to expect their voice to be listened to; and in that case, the words of our Evangelist are to be taken strictly, that, without one dissentient voice, "all [present] condemned him to be guilty of death."
The Blessed One Is Now Shamefully Entreated (Mark 14:65).
Every word here must be carefully observed, and the several accounts put together, that we may lose none of the awful indignities about to be described.

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