Markus 14:53-59

Condemned by the Sanhedrin

14:53 Then ¹  they led Jesus to the high priest, and all the chief priests and elders and experts in the law ²  came together. 14:54 And Peter had followed him from a distance, up to the high priest’s courtyard. He ³  was sitting with the guards ⁴  and warming himself by the fire. 14:55 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 anything. 14:56 Many gave false testimony against him, but their testimony did not agree. 14:57 Some stood up and gave this false testimony against him: ⁵  14:58 “We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple made with hands and in three days build another not made with hands.’” 14:59 Yet even on this point their testimony did not agree.

[14:53]  ¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

[14:53]  ² tn Or “and scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 1:22.

[14:54]  ³ tn Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[14:54]  ⁴ sn The guards would have been the guards of the chief priests who had accompanied Judas to arrest Jesus.

[14:57]  ⁵ tn Grk “Some standing up gave false testimony against him, saying.”