Mark 14:60 “And the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, saying, 'Answerest thou nothing? What is it which these witness against thee?'”
It had been quite the scene, I'm sure. Jesus is standing, bound, while a parade of people passed by, all of them giving “testimony” against Him that did not match! Even when they changed tact and tried to give just one account of His alleged “lies,” their stories were so far off as to be unbelievable.
Finally, the high priest, who had grown tire of the fiasco, asked Jesus if He was indeed “the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?” (verse 61)
Jesus responds in verse 62, “I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.”
That inspired the high priest to end it there. He put on his best “drama queen” and tore his clothes, and
fulfilled his part in the fleshing out of the prophecy of our Lord's death for our sins.
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