MARK 14:56 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together.”
Many testified falsely against him, but their statements did not agree — the many false witnesses cannot even coordinate their testimonies into a legally adequate case. Deuteronomy 19:15 required the agreement of two or three witnesses for conviction; the false witnesses cannot produce the required agreement.
Church Fathers on Mark 14:56
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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