MARK 14:60 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee?”
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).
Church Fathers on Mark 14:60
The more Jesus remained silent before the false witnesses who were unworthy of His answer, and the impious priests, the more the High Priest, overcome with anger, endeavoured to provoke Him to answer, that he might find room for accusing Him, from any thing whatever which He might say.
But our God and Saviour Himself, Who brought salvation to the world, and assisted mankind by His love, is led as a sheep to the slaughter, without crying, and remained mute and 'kept silence yea even from good words.'
But He remained silent because He knew that they would not attend to His words, wherefore He answered according to Luke, 'If I tell you, ye will not believe.' [Luke 22:67]
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