MARK 14:55 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And the chief priests and all the council sought for witness against Jesus to put him to death; and found none.”
The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for evidence against Jesus so that they could put him to death, but they did not find any — the verdict has been predetermined: death. The evidence is being sought after the verdict has been decided — the trial is not a genuine evaluation but a legal formalization of the intention established in Mark 3:6 and repeated throughout the Jerusalem section. The failure to find evidence communicates that the prosecution is not based on genuine wrongdoing.
Church Fathers on Mark 14:55
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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