MARK 14:61 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?”
But Jesus remained silent and gave no answer. Again the high priest asked him, are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One? — the silence to the first question is replaced by the direct answer to the direct question. The Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One is the highest claim the high priest can put to Jesus — combining the royal-messianic title with the divine-filial title. The high priest is asking the question whose answer he has already decided to treat as blasphemy.
Church Fathers on Mark 14:61
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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