56
For many gave false testimony against him, and their testimony didn’t agree with each other.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 56. Their evidence did not agree. [3] Others translate, their testimonies were not sufficient; that is, so as to amount to a crime that made him guilty of death. The Greek, as well as the Latin text, may be taken in either sense. The high priest, vexed at this, stood up, and asked him questions, hoping to make him appear guilty by his own confession. Witham.—This latter sense is given to the same expression, verse 59 infra.
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