and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 60. False witnesses. But how were these men false witnesses, who affirm what we read in the gospel? That man is a false witness, who construes what is said in a sense foreign to that of the speaker. Jesus Christ spoke of the temple of his body. Our divine Saviour had said, Destroy this temple; and they affirm that he had said, I am able to destroy. Had the Jews attended sufficiently to our Saviour’s words, they would easily have perceived of what Christ was speaking, from what he there says: and in three days I will raise it up, S. Jerom.—These words of Jesus Christ are only mentioned by Saint John 2:19, who marks on what occasion and in what sense there were spoken. V.