Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Then the high priest stood up and said to Jesus, “Are you not going to answer? What is this testimony that these men are bringing against you?” New Living Translation Then the high priest stood up and said to Jesus, “Well, aren’t you going to answer these charges? What do you have to say for yourself?” English Standard Version And the high priest stood up and said, “Have you no answer to make? What is it that these men testify against you?” Berean Standard Bible So the high priest stood up and asked Him, “Have You no answer? What are these men testifying against You?” Berean Literal Bible And the high priest having stood up, said to Him, "Answer you nothing? What do these witness against you?" King James Bible And the high priest arose, and said unto him, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee? New King James Version And the high priest arose and said to Him, “Do You answer nothing? What is it these men testify against You?” New American Standard Bible The high priest stood up and said to Him, “Do You offer no answer for what these men are testifying against You?” NASB 1995 The high priest stood up and said to Him, “Do You not answer? What is it that these men are testifying against You?” NASB 1977 And the high priest stood up and said to Him, “Do You make no answer? What is it that these men are testifying against You?” Legacy Standard Bible And the high priest stood up and said to Him, “Do You not answer? What are these men testifying against You?” Amplified Bible The high priest stood up and said to Jesus, “Have You no answer to give? What is it that these men are testifying against You?” Christian Standard Bible The high priest stood up and said to him, “Don’t you have an answer to what these men are testifying against you? ” Holman Christian Standard Bible The high priest then stood up and said to Him, “Don’t You have an answer to what these men are testifying against You?” American Standard Version And the high priest stood up, and said unto him, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee? Contemporary English Version The high priest stood up and asked Jesus, "Why don't you say something in your own defense? Don't you hear the charges they are making against you?" English Revised Version And the high priest stood up, and said unto him, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee? GOD'S WORD® Translation The chief priest stood up and said to Jesus, "Don't you have any answer to what these men testify against you?" Good News Translation The High Priest stood up and said to Jesus, "Have you no answer to give to this accusation against you?" International Standard Version At this, the high priest stood up and asked Jesus, "Don't you have any answer to what these men are testifying against you?" Majority Standard Bible So the high priest stood up and asked Him, “Have You no answer? What are these men testifying against You?” NET Bible So the high priest stood up and said to him, "Have you no answer? What is this that they are testifying against you?" New Heart English Bible The high priest stood up, and said to him, "Have you no answer? What is this that these testify against you?" Webster's Bible Translation And the high priest arose, and said to him, Answerest thou nothing, what is it which these testify against thee? Weymouth New Testament Then the High Priest stood up and asked Him, "Have you no answer to make? What is it these men are saying in evidence against you?" World English Bible The high priest stood up and said to him, “Have you no answer? What is this that these testify against you?” Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionAnd the chief priest having stood up, said to Him, “Nothing You answer? What do these witness against You?” Berean Literal Bible And the high priest having stood up, said to Him, "Answer you nothing? What do these witness against you?" Young's Literal Translation And the chief priest having stood up, said to him, 'Nothing thou dost answer! what do these witness against thee? Smith's Literal Translation And the chief priest, having risen, said to him, Answerest thou nothing? what do these witness against thee? Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleAnd the high priest rising up, said to him: Answerest thou nothing to the things which these witness against thee? Catholic Public Domain Version And the high priest, rising up, said to him, “Have you nothing to respond to what these ones testify against you?” New American Bible The high priest rose and addressed him, “Have you no answer? What are these men testifying against you?” New Revised Standard Version The high priest stood up and said, “Have you no answer? What is it that they testify against you?” Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleAnd the high priest stood up and said to him, You are not answering anything. What is it that these men testify against you? Aramaic Bible in Plain English And the High Priest stood and said to him, “Do you not return an answer? What are these testifying against you?” NT Translations Anderson New TestamentAnd the chief priest arose, and said to him: Do you make no answer? What do these testify against you? Godbey New Testament And the high priest rising, said to Him, Do you respond nothing? what are they witnessing against you? Haweis New Testament And the high-priest rising up, said to him, Answerest thou nothing? what do these men witness against thee? Mace New Testament and the high priest arose, and said to him, have you nothing in answer to that charge they bring against you? Weymouth New Testament Then the High Priest stood up and asked Him, "Have you no answer to make? What is it these men are saying in evidence against you?" Worrell New Testament And the high priest, standing up, said to Him, "Answerest Thou nothing? What are these testifying against Thee?" Worsley New Testament And the high priest stood up and said to Him, Dost thou make no answer? what do these men testify against thee? but Jesus made no reply. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Jesus Faces the Sanhedrin…61and declared, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God and rebuild it in three days.’ ” 62So the high priest stood up and asked Him, “Have You no answer? What are these men testifying against You?” 63But Jesus remained silent. Then the high priest said to Him, “I charge You under oath by the living God: Tell us if You are the Christ, the Son of God.”… Cross References Mark 14:60 So the high priest stood up before them and questioned Jesus, “Have You no answer? What are these men testifying against You?” John 18:19-24 Meanwhile, the high priest questioned Jesus about His disciples and His teaching. / “I have spoken openly to the world,” Jesus answered. “I always taught in the synagogues and at the temple, where all the Jews come together. I said nothing in secret. / Why are you asking Me? Ask those who heard My message. Surely they know what I said.” ... Luke 22:63-71 The men who were holding Jesus began to mock Him and beat Him. / They blindfolded Him and kept demanding, “Prophesy! Who hit You?” / And they said many other blasphemous things against Him. ... Isaiah 53:7 He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth. Acts 8:32-35 The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so He did not open His mouth. / In His humiliation He was deprived of justice. Who can recount His descendants? For His life was removed from the earth.” / “Tell me,” said the eunuch, “who is the prophet talking about, himself or someone else?” ... 1 Peter 2:23 When they heaped abuse on Him, He did not retaliate; when He suffered, He made no threats, but entrusted Himself to Him who judges justly. John 19:9-11 and he went back into the Praetorium. “Where are You from?” he asked. But Jesus gave no answer. / So Pilate said to Him, “Do You refuse to speak to me? Do You not know that I have authority to release You and authority to crucify You?” / Jesus answered, “You would have no authority over Me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed Me over to you is guilty of greater sin.” Matthew 27:12-14 And when He was accused by the chief priests and elders, He gave no answer. / Then Pilate asked Him, “Do You not hear how many charges they are bringing against You?” / But Jesus gave no answer, not even to a single charge, much to the governor’s amazement. Psalm 38:13-14 But like a deaf man, I do not hear; and like a mute man, I do not open my mouth. / I am like a man who cannot hear, whose mouth offers no reply. Isaiah 50:6 I offered My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who tore out My beard. I did not hide My face from scorn and spittle. Acts 6:13-14 where they presented false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and against the law. / For we have heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.” John 2:19-21 Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.” / “This temple took forty-six years to build,” the Jews replied, “and You are going to raise it up in three days?” / But Jesus was speaking about the temple of His body. Psalm 27:12 Do not hand me over to the will of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence. Isaiah 53:3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not. 1 Peter 2:22 “He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in His mouth.” Treasury of Scripture And the high priest arose, and said to him, Answer you nothing? what is it which these witness against you? Answerest. Matthew 27:12-14 And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing… 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? Luke 23:9 Then he questioned with him in many words; but he answered him nothing. Jump to Previous Chief Evidence High Jesus Priest Standing Stood Testify Testifying Testimony WitnessJump to Next Chief Evidence High Jesus Priest Standing Stood Testify Testifying Testimony WitnessMatthew 26 1. Jesus foretells his own death.3. The rulers conspire against him. 6. The woman anoints his feet. 14. Judas bargains to betray him. 17. Jesus eats the Passover; 26. institutes his holy supper; 30. foretells the desertion of his disciples, and Peter's denial; 36. prays in the garden; 47. and being betrayed by a kiss, 57. is carried to Caiaphas, 69. and denied by Peter. So the high priest stood up The high priest, Caiaphas, held a position of significant authority within the Jewish religious hierarchy. His standing up signifies a moment of heightened tension and authority in the trial of Jesus. In the Jewish legal system, the high priest was not only a religious leader but also a key figure in maintaining order and interpreting the Law. The act of standing could symbolize a transition from passive observation to active engagement, emphasizing the gravity of the situation. Historically, the high priest's role was to mediate between God and the people, yet here, Caiaphas is depicted as an adversary to Jesus, highlighting the tragic irony of the religious establishment's opposition to the Messiah. and asked Him Have You no answer? What are these men testifying against You? What is it . . .?--The question was clearly put, as it had been before Annas (John 18:19), with the intention of drawing out something that would ensure condemnation. Verse 62. - The high priest [Caiaphas] arose. As if in indignation at the outrage offered by this vaunt to Jehovah and the sanctuary. But the indignation was assumed and theatrical; for even this charge had broken down, owing to the disagreement of the two witnesses (Mark 14:59). Something more definite must be secured before any formal appeal could be made to the Sanhedrin or the procurator. Answerest thou nothing? The angry president endeavours to browbeat the Prisoner, and to make him criminate himself by intemperate language or indiscreet admission. What is it which these witness against thee? The Received Text (followed here by Westcott and Hort) divides the high priest's words into two questions, as in the Authorized Version. The Vulgate unites the two into one, Nihil respondes ad ea quae isti adversum te testificantur? Alford, Tischendorf, etc., print, Οὐδὲν ἀποκρίνῃ τί οῦτοί σου καταμαρτυροῦσιν; "Answerest thou not what it is which these witness against thee?" Caiaphas professes a desire to hear Christ's explanation of the words just alleged against him.Parallel Commentaries ... Greek SoΚαὶ (Kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. the ὁ (ho) Article - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. high priest ἀρχιερεὺς (archiereus) Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 749: High priest, chief priest. From arche and hiereus; the high-priest; by extension a chief priest. stood up ἀναστὰς (anastas) Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 450: To raise up, set up; I rise from among (the) dead; I arise, appear. From ana and histemi; to stand up. [and] asked εἶπεν (eipen) Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 2036: Answer, bid, bring word, command. A primary verb; to speak or say. Him, αὐτῷ (autō) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative Masculine 3rd Person Singular Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons. “Have you no answer? ἀποκρίνῃ (apokrinē) Verb - Present Indicative Middle or Passive - 2nd Person Singular Strong's 611: From apo and krino; to conclude for oneself, i.e. to respond; by Hebraism to begin to speak. What τί (ti) Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Accusative Neuter Singular Strong's 5101: Who, which, what, why. Probably emphatic of tis; an interrogative pronoun, who, which or what. {are} these [men] οὗτοί (houtoi) Demonstrative Pronoun - Nominative Masculine Plural Strong's 3778: This; he, she, it. testifying against καταμαρτυροῦσιν (katamartyrousin) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural Strong's 2649: To give evidence (bear witness) against. From kata and martureo; to testify against. you?” σου (sou) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Singular Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou. 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