Matthew 26:65

Webster's Bible (1833)

Then the high priest tore his clothing, saying, "He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy.

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  • Matt 9:3 : 3 Behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, "This man blasphemes."
  • John 10:36 : 36 Do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You blaspheme,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God?'
  • Acts 14:14 : 14 But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it, they tore their clothes, and sprang into the multitude, crying out,
  • Mark 14:63-64 : 63 The high priest tore his clothes, and said, "What further need have we of witnesses? 64 You have heard the blasphemy! What do you think?" They all condemned him to be worthy of death.
  • Luke 5:21 : 21 The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, "Who is this that speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?"
  • John 10:33 : 33 The Jews answered him, "We don't stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God."
  • Lev 21:20 : 20 or hunchbacked, or a dwarf, or one who has a defect in his eye, or an itching disease, or scabs, or who has damaged testicles;
  • Num 14:6 : 6 Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes:
  • 1 Kgs 21:10-13 : 10 and set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, You did curse God and the king. Then carry him out, and stone him to death. 11 The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, according as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them. 12 They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people. 13 The two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him: and the base fellows bore witness against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did curse God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him to death with stones.
  • 2 Kgs 18:37-19:3 : 37 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh. 1 It happened, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of Yahweh. 2 He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. 3 They said to him, Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
  • Jer 36:24 : 24 They were not afraid, nor tore their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants who heard all these words.

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    60 The high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, "Have you no answer? What is it which these testify against you?"

    61 But he stayed quiet, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?"

    62 Jesus said, "I AM. You will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of the sky."

    63 The high priest tore his clothes, and said, "What further need have we of witnesses?

    64 You have heard the blasphemy! What do you think?" They all condemned him to be worthy of death.

    65 Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with fists, and to tell him, "Prophesy!" The officers struck him with the palms of their hands.

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    66 What do you think?" They answered, "He is worthy of death!"

    67 Then they spit in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,

    68 saying, "Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who hit you?"

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    70 They all said, "Are you then the Son of God?" He said to them, "You say it, because I AM."

    71 They said, "Why do we need any more witness? For we ourselves have heard from his own mouth!"

  • Acts 6:13-14
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    13 and set up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

    14 For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us."

  • 3 Behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, "This man blasphemes."

  • 41 Likewise the chief priests also mocking, with the scribes, the Pharisees,{TR omits "the Pharisees"} and the elders, said,

  • 36 Do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You blaspheme,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God?'

  • 11 Then they secretly induced men to say, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God."

  • 59 Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;

  • 4 saying, "I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us? You see to it."

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    23 Jesus answered him, "If I have spoken evil, testify of the evil; but if well, why do you beat me?"

  • John 19:5-7
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    5 Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, "Behold, the man!"

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    7 The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God."

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    3 The chief priests accused him of many things.

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  • 21 The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, "Don't write, 'The King of the Jews,' but, 'he said, I am King of the Jews.'"

  • 54 How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?"

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    13 They cried out again, "Crucify him!"

    14 Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they cried out exceedingly, "Crucify him!"

  • 57 Those who had taken Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.

  • 45 The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two.

  • 31 When they had mocked him, they took the robe off of him, and put his clothes on him, and led him away to crucify him.