Matthew 26:65

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Then the high priest tore his clothes and declared,“He has blasphemed! Why do we still need witnesses? Now you have heard the blasphemy!

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  • Matt 9:3 : 3 Then some of the experts in the law said to themselves,“This man is blaspheming!”
  • John 10:36 : 36 do you say about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world,‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said,‘I am the Son of God’?
  • Acts 14:14 : 14 But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard about it, they tore their clothes and rushed out into the crowd, shouting,
  • Mark 14:63-64 : 63 Then the high priest tore his clothes and said,“Why do we still need witnesses? 64 You have heard the blasphemy! What is your verdict?” They all condemned him as deserving death.
  • Luke 5:21 : 21 Then the experts in the law and the Pharisees began to think to themselves,“Who is this man who is uttering blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
  • John 10:33 : 33 The Jewish leaders replied,“We are not going to stone you for a good deed but for blasphemy, because you, a man, are claiming to be God.”
  • Lev 21:20 : 20 or a hunchback, or a dwarf, or one with a spot in his eye, or a festering eruption, or a feverish rash, or a crushed testicle.
  • Num 14:6 : 6 And Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, two of those who had investigated the land, tore their garments.
  • 1 Kgs 21:10-13 : 10 Also seat two villains opposite him and have them testify,‘You cursed God and the king.’ Then take him out and stone him to death.” 11 The men of the city, the leaders and the nobles who lived there, followed the written orders Jezebel had sent them. 12 They observed a time of fasting and put Naboth in front of the people. 13 The two villains arrived and sat opposite him. Then the villains testified against Naboth right before the people, saying,“Naboth cursed God and the king.” So they dragged him outside the city and stoned him to death.
  • 2 Kgs 18:37-19:3 : 37 Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and reported to him what the chief adviser had said. 1 When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and went to the LORD’s temple. 2 He sent Eliakim the palace supervisor, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, clothed in sackcloth to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz. 3 They told him,“This is what Hezekiah says:‘This is a day of distress, insults, and humiliation, as when a baby is ready to leave the birth canal, but the mother lacks the strength to push it through.
  • Jer 36:24 : 24 Neither he nor any of his attendants showed any alarm when they heard all that had been read. Nor did they tear their clothes to show any grief or sorrow.

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    60Then the high priest stood up before them and asked Jesus,“Have you no answer? What is this that they are testifying against you?”

    61But he was silent and did not answer. Again the high priest questioned him,“Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?”

    62“I am,” said Jesus,“and you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power and coming with the clouds of heaven.”

    63Then the high priest tore his clothes and said,“Why do we still need witnesses?

    64You have heard the blasphemy! What is your verdict?” They all condemned him as deserving death.

    65Then some began to spit on him, and to blindfold him, and to strike him with their fists, saying,“Prophesy!” The guards also took him and beat him.

  • Matt 26:66-68
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    66What is your verdict?” They answered,“He is guilty and deserves death.”

    67Then they spat in his face and struck him with their fists. And some slapped him,

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    61and declared,“This man said,‘I am able to destroy the temple of God and rebuild it in three days.’”

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    63But Jesus was silent. The high priest said to him,“I charge you under oath by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.”

    64Jesus said to him,“You have said it yourself. But I tell you, from now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power and coming on the clouds of heaven.”

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    64They blindfolded him and asked him repeatedly,“Prophesy! Who hit you?”

    65They also said many other things against him, reviling him.

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    4Those standing near him said,“Do you dare insult God’s high priest?”

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    70So they all said,“Are you the Son of God, then?” He answered them,“You say that I am.”

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    13They brought forward false witnesses who said,“This man does not stop saying things against this holy place and the law.

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    3Then some of the experts in the law said to themselves,“This man is blaspheming!”

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    36do you say about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world,‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said,‘I am the Son of God’?

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    11Then they secretly instigated some men to say,“We have heard this man speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God.”

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    59The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were trying to find false testimony against Jesus so that they could put him to death.

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    4saying,“I have sinned by betraying innocent blood!” But they said,“What is that to us? You take care of it yourself!”

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    21Why do you ask me? Ask those who heard what I said. They know what I said.”

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    38And the temple curtain was torn in two, from top to bottom.

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    13Then Pilate said to him,“Don’t you hear how many charges they are bringing against you?”

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  • John 10:33
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  • John 19:21
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    21Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate,“Do not write,‘The king of the Jews,’ but rather,‘This man said, I am king of the Jews.’”

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    13They shouted back,“Crucify him!”

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    31When they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes back on him. Then they led him away to crucify him.