Mark 14:53 Cross References - Riverside

⁵³ They led Jesus away to the High Priest, and all the high priests and elders and scribes assembled.

³ Then the high priests and the elders of the people assembled at the house of the High Priest, who was called Caiaphas,

⁵⁷ The men who had arrested Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the High Priest, at whose house the scribes and elders had assembled. ⁵⁸ Peter followed him at a distance as far as the court of the High Priest, and went in and sat among the attendants to see the end. ⁵⁹ The high priests and the whole council sought for false testimony against Jesus, so that they might put him to death. ⁶⁰ But they did not find any, although many false witnesses came. Finally, two came forward ⁶¹ and said, "This man said, 'I can pull down the Temple of God and in three days build it up again.' " ⁶² The High Priest rose and said to him, "Have you no answer? What is it that these are testifying to against you?" ⁶³ But Jesus kept silence. The High Priest said to him, "I adjure you by the living God to tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God." ⁶⁴ Jesus said to him, "I am he. But I tell you, hereafter you will see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of power and coming on the clouds of heaven." ⁶⁵ Then the High Priest rent his garments, saying, "Impious words! Why do we any longer need witnesses? See, you have now heard his impious words. ⁶⁶ What do you think?" They answered, "He deserves death." ⁶⁷ Then they spit in his face and struck him with their fists. Some slapped him, ⁶⁸ saying, "Act the prophet for us, you Christ! Who was it that struck you? "

¹ PROMPTLY at dawn the high priests, after holding a consultation with the elders and the scribes and the whole council, bound Jesus and led him away and delivered him over to Pilate.

⁵⁴ After arresting him they led him away and brought him into the house of the High Priest. Peter followed at a distance. ⁵⁵ They lighted a fire in the center of the court and seated themselves around it, and Peter seated himself in the midst of them. ⁵⁶ A maid saw him sitting near the light, and, looking hard at him, said, "This man was with him too." ⁵⁷ But he denied, saying, "Woman, I do not know him." ⁵⁸ After a short space another — a man — saw him, and said, "You too are one of them." But Peter said, "Man, I am not." ⁵⁹ About an hour later, another man asserted positively, "Truly this man was with him too, for he is a Galilaean." ⁶⁰ But Peter said, "Man, I do not know what you are talking about." Immediately while he was speaking the cock crew, ⁶¹ and the Master turned and looked at Peter, and Peter remembered the word of the Master, how he had said to him, "Before the cock crows to-day you will disown me three times." ⁶² And he went out and wept bitterly.

¹² So the battalion and the Tribune and the Jewish policemen arrested Jesus and bound him ¹³ and took him first to Annas, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas who was High Priest that year. ¹⁴ Caiaphas was the man who had advised the Jews that it was best that one man should die for the people.

¹⁹ The High Priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and his teaching. ²⁰ Jesus answered him, "I have spoken frankly to the world. I constantly taught in synagogues and in the Temple courts where all the Jews assemble, and I have spoken nothing in secret. ²¹ Why do you question me? Question my hearers what I said to them. Certainly they know what I said." ²² When he said this, a policeman, who was standing by, gave Jesus a slap, saying, "Do you answer the High Priest that way?" ²³ Jesus answered him, "If I have spoken wrongly, bear witness against me of the wrong; but if I have spoken rightly, why do you strike me?" ²⁴ Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas the High Priest.

⁵ On the next day there was a gathering of their rulers and elders and scribes in Jerusalem, ⁶ with Annas the High Priest and Caiaphas and John and Alexander and all who were of high priestly race.