Mark 14 · Verse 60

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?
Mark 14:60, King James Version

Mark 14:60 in other translations

BSBSo the high priest stood up before them and questioned Jesus, “Have You no answer? What are these men testifying against You?”
WEBThe high priest stood up in the middle, and asked Jesus, “Have you no answer? What is it which these testify against you?”
ASVAnd the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee?
YLTAnd the chief priest, having risen up in the midst, questioned Jesus, saying, ‘Thou dost not answer anything! what do these testify against thee?'
DARBYAnd the high priest, rising up before them all, asked Jesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing? What do these testify against thee?
BBEAnd the high priest got up in the middle of them, and said to Jesus, Do you say nothing in answer? what is it which these say against you?
WebsterAnd the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these testify against thee?

What does Mark 14:60 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
60. Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee?--Clearly, they felt that their case had failed, and by this artful question the high priest hoped to get from His own mouth what they had in vain tried to obtain from their false and contradictory witnesses. But in this, too, they failed.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Barnes' Notes
Verse 60.

(l) "against thee" Mt 26:62

Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Mark 14:53-65

We have here Christ's condemnation before the great council of the Jews. Peter followed; but the high priest's fire-side was no proper place, nor his servants proper company, for Peter: it was an entrance into temptation. Great diligence was used to procure false witnesses against Jesus, yet their testimony was not equal to the charge of a capital crime, by the utmost stretch of their law. He was asked, Art thou the…

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Mark 14:60 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

καὶkaiAndG2532
ἀναστὰςanastashaving stood upG450
ὁhotheG3588
ἀρχιερεὺςarchiereushigh priestG749
εἰςeisinG1519
μέσονmesonmidstG3319
ἐπηρώτησενepērōtēsenhe questionedG1905
τὸνton<the>G3588
ἸησοῦνIēsounJesusG2424
λέγων·legōnsaying;G3004
οὐκoukNotG3756
ἀποκρίνῃapokrinēanswer YouG611
οὐδὲνoudenno [thing]G3762
τίtiWhat [about]G5101
οὗτοίhoutoitheseG3778
σουsouYouG4771
καταμαρτυροῦσιν;katamarturousintestify against?G2649

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Mark 14:60

  • John 19:9-10

    And went again into the judgment hall, and saith unto Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer. Then saith Pilate unto him, Speakest thou not unto me? knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee?

  • Mark 15:3-5

    And the chief priests accused him of many things: but he answered nothing. And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing? behold how many things they witness against thee. But Jesus yet answered nothing; so that Pilate marvelled.

  • Matthew 26:62-63

    And the high priest arose, and said unto him, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee? But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
15:3-5; Mt 26:62,63; Joh 19:9,10

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Mark 14:59

    But neither so did their witness agree together.

  • 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?

  • Mark 14:61

    But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?

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Mark 14:60 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Entonces el sumo sacerdote, levantándose en medio, preguntó á Jesús, diciendo: ¿No respondes algo? ¿Qué atestiguan éstos contra ti?
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et le souverain sacrificateur, se levant devant tous, interrogea Jésus, disant: Ne réponds-tu rien? De quoi ceux-ci témoignent-ils contre toi?
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und der Hohepriester stand auf, trat in die Mitte und fragte Jesum und sprach: Antwortest du nichts? Was zeugen diese wider dich?
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et exsurgens summus sacerdos in medium, interrogavit Jesum, dicens: Non respondes quidquam ad ea quæ tibi objiciuntur ab his?