Then the high priest stood up before them and asked Jesus, are you not going to answer? What is this testimony that these men are bringing against you? — the high priest's intervention attempts to produce a response from Jesus that can serve as the basis for conviction. The silence strategy Jesus is employing (verse 61) fulfills Isaiah 53:7 (he was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth).

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