Matthew 26:66
What think ye? They answered and said, He is guilty of death.
Matthew 26:66 in other translations
| BSB | What do you think?” “He deserves to die,” they answered. |
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| WEB | What do you think?” They answered, “He is worthy of death!” |
| ASV | what think ye? They answered and said, He is worthy of death. |
| YLT | what think ye?' and they answering said, ‘He is worthy of death.' |
| DARBY | What think ye? And they answering said, He is liable to the penalty of death. |
| BBE | What is your opinion? They made answer and said, It is right for him to be put to death. |
| Webster | What think ye? They answered and said, He is guilty of death. |
What does Matthew 26:66 mean?
Barnes' Notes
He is guilty of death. This was the form which was used when criminal was condemned to die. The meaning is, he is found guilty of a crime to which the law annexes death. This sentence was used before the Jews became subject to the Romans, when they had the power of inflicting death. After they were subject to the Romans, though the power of inflicting capital punishment was taken away, yet they retained the form, when they expressed their opinion of the guilt of an offender. The law under which they condemned him was that recorded in Lev 24:10-16, which sentenced him that was guilty of blasphemy to death by stoning. The chief priests, however, were unwilling to excite a popular tumult by stoning him, and they therefore consulted to deliver him to the Romans to be crucified, under the authority of the Roman name, and thus to prevent say excitement among the people.
(h) "death" Lev 24:16, Jn 19:7
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Matthew 26:57-68
Jesus was hurried into Jerusalem. It looks ill, and bodes worse, when those who are willing to be Christ's disciples, are not willing to be known to be so. Here began Peter's denying him: for to follow Christ afar off, is to begin to go back from him. It is more our concern to prepare for the end, whatever it may be, than curiously to ask what the end will be. The event is God's, but the duty is ours. Now the…
Matthew 26:66 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Matthew 26:66
- John 19:7
The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.
- Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
- Leviticus 24:11-16
And the Israelitish woman’s son blasphemed the name of the Lord, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:) And they put him in ward, that the mind of the Lord might be shewed them. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him. …
- Acts 13:27-28
For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him. And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.
- James 5:6
Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
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Context
- Matthew 26:65
Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy.
- Matthew 26:66
What think ye? They answered and said, He is guilty of death.
- Matthew 26:67
Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands,
Matthew 26:66 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¿Qué os parece? Y respondiendo ellos, dijeron: Culpado es de muerte. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | que vous en semble? Et répondant, ils dirent: Il mérite la mort. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Was dünkt euch? Sie aber antworteten und sprachen: Er ist des Todes schuldig. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | quid vobis videtur? At illi respondentes dixerunt: Reus est mortis. |