Mark 14:64

Mar 14:64 . τί ὑμῖν φαίνεται , what appears to you to be the appropriate penalty of such blasphemous speech? = τί ὑμῖν δοκεῖ in Mt. Nösgen denies the equivalence, and renders Mk.’s peculiar phrase: what lies for you on the hand, what is now your duty? with appeal to Xenophon, Anab., v., 7, 3.

The Expositor's Greek Testament, edited by W. Robertson Nicoll (1897–1910) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

(64) Guilty of death.—Here, as in Mat_26:66, the translators follow the old English usage, and connect the word “guilty,” not as we now do, with the crime of which a man is convicted, but with the punishment to which he is liable.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

64. they all condemned him] Worse than false prophet, worse than false Messiah, He had declared Himself to be the “Son of God,” and that in the presence of the high-priest and the great Council. He had incurred the capital penalty. But though they thus passed sentence, they could not execute it. The right had been taken from them ever since Judæa became a Roman province. The sentence, therefore, needed confirmation, and the matter must be referred to the Roman governor.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

But he denied,.... That he was with Jesus, or a disciple of his:

saying, I know not; Jesus of Nazareth: neither understand I what thou sayest; about him, and of being with him: the last phrase, "neither understand I", is omitted in the Syriac and Persic versions:

and he went out into the porch; adjoining to the palace, to consider what to do, being surprised and confounded at such a challenge:

and the cock crew; the first time, being about midnight; and yet he took no notice of it, nor remembered what Christ had but a few hours before said to him: or if he did, he might hope he should not meet with another attack, or he should have more courage and strength than to deny a second time.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

64 Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye? And they all condemned him to be guilty of death.

Ver. 64. They all condemned him] As a blasphemer, because he made himself the Son of God. This may comfortably assure us that we are freed by Christ from that crime of blasphemy we stand guilty of, for affecting a deity in our first parents.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

64. Guilty of death — The phrase guilty of, is here used in the old English sense, deserving of death.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

They all condemned him to be worthy of death (enocon yanatou). There were, therefore, none there but those who were known to be opposed to our Lord. It.will be remembered that all these proceedings were illegal.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

64. ἠκούσατε τῆς βλασφημίας. The sentence may be interrogative (WH.), but more probably it is categorical (A.V., R.V.), and we may keep the aor. in English; Ye heard the blasphemy. The thing heard is rarely in the gen., and here Mt. has the acc. Cf. Luk 15:25.

τί ὑμῖν φαίνεται; What do you think of it? This might mean, “Do you regard His utterance as blasphemous?” But it probably meant, “What treatment ought to be His?” The blasphemy was assumed.

οἱ δὲ πάντες. The πάντες may be exact. It is not likely that Joseph of Arimathaea (Luk 23:51) or Nicodemus (Joh 7:50; Joh 19:39) was present at this nocturnal meeting; but Mt. omits the doubtful πάντες.

ἔνοχον εἶναι θανὰτου. This is certainly accurate. They could decide that He was worthy of death; but, the sitting being illegal, the Sanhedrin had no power to pronounce any sentence. That was done later, after daybreak.

Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges (Cambridge University Press, 1896; 21 vols, various authors incl. Carr, Maclear, Plummer, Farrar, Lumby, Moule, M. R. James, Simcox) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

64. ἠκούσατε τ. βλασφημίας—you heard the blasphemy. The blasphemy did not consist in the terms in which he claimed the Messianic dignity, since he used simply the language of prophecy, but in what the high priest considered to be his false claim to so august a position. ἔνοχον θανάτου—liable to (the punishment of ) death. The high priest has named the crime of which they find him guilty under the Jewish law. This is the penalty of that crime of blasphemy.

International Critical Commentary — older volumes (1896–1929), various authors — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Guilty of death. See on Mt 26:66.

Marvin R. Vincent, Word Studies in the New Testament (1887–1900) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.