MARK 14:53 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And they led Jesus away to the high priest: and with him were assembled all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes.”
They took Jesus to the high priest, and all the chief priests, the elders and the teachers of the law came together — the night trial before the full Sanhedrin is constitutionally irregular (night trials were prohibited by later rabbinic law) but the crisis demands immediate resolution. The gathering of all the chief priests, elders, and teachers of the law is the full council assembled for the most consequential verdict in Israel's history.
Church Fathers on Mark 14:53
The Evangelist had related above how our Lord had been taken by the servants of the Priests. Now he begins to relate how He was condemned to death in the house of the High Priest.
He means by the High Priest, Caiaphas, who (as John writes) was High Priest that year, of whom Josephus relates that he bought his priesthood of the Roman Emperor.
Then took place the gathering together of the bulls among the heifers of the people. [Ps 67:31, Vulgate]
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