Matthew 26:60

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Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
but they could not find any, even though many false witnesses came forward. Finally, two who came forward

King James Version (1611)
But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses,

King James Version
But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses,

English Standard Version
but they found none, though many false witnesses came forward. At last two came forward

New American Standard Bible
They did not find any, even though many false witnesses came forward. But later on two came forward,

New Century Version
Many people came and told lies about him, but the council could find no real reason to kill him. Then two people came and said,

Amplified Bible
They found none, even though many false witnesses came forward. At last two came forward,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
They did not find any, even though many false witnesses came forward. But later on two came forward,

Legacy Standard Bible
And they did not find any, even though many false witnesses came forward. But later on two came forward,

Berean Standard Bible
But they could not find it, though many false witnesses came forward. Finally two came forward

Contemporary English Version
But they could not find any, even though many did come and tell lies. At last, two men came forward

Complete Jewish Bible
But they didn't find any, even though many liars came forward to give testimony. At last, however, two people came forward and said,

Darby Translation
And they found none, though many false witnesses came forward. But at the last two false witnesses came forward

Easy-to-Read Version
Many people came and told lies about him. But the council could find no real reason to kill him. Then two people came

Geneva Bible (1587)
But they founde none, and though many false witnesses came, yet founde they none: but at the last came two false witnesses,

George Lamsa Translation
But they could not find any; then there came a great many false witnesses; but at the end two came forward,

Good News Translation
but they could not find any, even though many people came forward and told lies about him. Finally two men stepped up

Lexham English Bible
And they did not find it, although many false witnesses came forward. And finally two came forward

Literal Translation
but did not find any , even though there were many false witnesses coming forward, they did not find any. But at last, coming up two false witnesses

American Standard Version
and they found it not, though many false witnesses came. But afterward came two,

Bible in Basic English
And they were not able to get it, though a number of false witnesses came.

Hebrew Names Version
and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward,

International Standard Version
But they couldn't find any, even though many false witnesses had come forward. At last two men came forwardDeuteronomy 19:15; Psalm 27:12; 35:11; Mark 14:55; Acts 6:13;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
but they found not (any). And many witnesses of falsehood came. But, last, two came near,

Murdock Translation
and found them not. And many false witnesses came; and at last, two came forward,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But founde none: yea, when many false witnesses came, yet founde they none. At the last, came two false witnesses,

English Revised Version
and they found it not, though many false witnesses came. But afterward came two,

World English Bible
and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward,

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
to put him to death, But found none; yea, tho' many false witnesses came, yet found they none.

Weymouth's New Testament
but they could find none, although many false witnesses came forward. At length there came two

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and thei founden not, whanne manye false witnessis weren comun. But at the laste, twei false witnessis camen,

Update Bible Version
and they did not find it, though many false witnesses came. But afterward, two came forward

Webster's Bible Translation
But found none: and, though many false witnesses came, [yet] found they none. At the last came two false witnesses,

New English Translation
But they did not find anything, though many false witnesses came forward. Finally two came forward

New King James Version
but found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. [fn] But at last two false witnesses [fn] came forward

New Living Translation
But even though they found many who agreed to give false witness, they could not use anyone's testimony. Finally, two men came forward

New Life Bible
They found none, but many came and told false things about Him. At last two came to the front.

New Revised Standard
but they found none, though many false witnesses came forward. At last two came forward

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and found not any, though many came forward as false-witnesses. At length, however, there came forward, two,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they found not, whereas many false witnesses had come in. And last of all there came two false witnesses:

Revised Standard Version
but they found none, though many false witnesses came forward. At last two came forward

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
but founde none: in somoche that when many false witnesses cam yet founde they none. At the last came two false witnesses

Young's Literal Translation
and they did not find; and many false witnesses having come near, they did not find; and at last two false witnesses having come near,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and founde none. And though many false wytnesses stepte forth, yet founde they none. At the last there stepte forth two false wytnesses,

Mace New Testament (1729)
but they found none: and though many false witnesses came, it was not found sufficient. at last there came two false witnesses, who charg'd him with saying,

Simplified Cowboy Version
After many attempts and people lyin' on the stand, they couldn't find a reason.Then two fellows walked in and

Contextual Overview

⁵⁷The gang that had seized Jesus led him before Caiaphas the Chief Priest, where the religion scholars and leaders had assembled. Peter followed at a safe distance until they got to the Chief Priest's courtyard. Then he slipped in and mingled with the servants, watching to see how things would turn out. ⁵⁹The high priests, conspiring with the Jewish Council, tried to cook up charges against Jesus in order to sentence him to death. But even though many stepped up, making up one false accusation after another, nothing was believable. Finally two men came forward with this: "He said, ‘I can tear down this Temple of God and after three days rebuild it.'" The Chief Priest stood up and said, "What do you have to say to the accusation?" Jesus kept silent. Then the Chief Priest said, "I command you by the authority of the living God to say if you are the Messiah, the Son of God." Jesus was curt: "You yourself said it. And that's not all. Soon you'll see it for yourself: The Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Mighty One, Arriving on the clouds of heaven." At that, the Chief Priest lost his temper, ripping his robes, yelling, "He blasphemed! Why do we need witnesses to accuse him? You all heard him blaspheme! Are you going to stand for such blasphemy?" They all said, "Death! That seals his death sentence." Then they were spitting in his face and banging him around. They jeered as they slapped him: "Prophesy, Messiah: Who hit you that time?" All this time, Peter was sitting out in the courtyard. One servant girl came up to him and said, "You were with Jesus the Galilean." In front of everybody there, he denied it. "I don't know what you're talking about." As he moved over toward the gate, someone else said to the people there, "This man was with Jesus the Nazarene." Again he denied it, salting his denial with an oath: "I swear, I never laid eyes on the man." Shortly after that, some bystanders approached Peter. "You've got to be one of them. Your accent gives you away." Then he got really nervous and swore. "I don't know the man!" Just then a rooster crowed. Peter remembered what Jesus had said: "Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times." He went out and cried and cried and cried. ⁶¹Anointed for Burial When Jesus finished saying these things, he told his disciples, "You know that Passover comes in two days. That's when the Son of Man will be betrayed and handed over for crucifixion." At that very moment, the party of high priests and religious leaders was meeting in the chambers of the Chief Priest named Caiaphas, conspiring to seize Jesus by stealth and kill him. They agreed that it should not be done during Passover Week. "We don't want a riot on our hands," they said. When Jesus was at Bethany, a guest of Simon the Leper, a woman came up to him as he was eating dinner and anointed him with a bottle of very expensive perfume. When the disciples saw what was happening, they were furious. "That's criminal! This could have been sold for a lot and the money handed out to the poor." When Jesus realized what was going on, he intervened. "Why are you giving this woman a hard time? She has just done something wonderfully significant for me. You will have the poor with you every day for the rest of your lives, but not me. When she poured this perfume on my body, what she really did was anoint me for burial. You can be sure that wherever in the whole world the Message is preached, what she has just done is going to be remembered and admired." That is when one of the Twelve, the one named Judas Iscariot, went to the cabal of high priests and said, "What will you give me if I hand him over to you?" They settled on thirty silver pieces. He began looking for just the right moment to hand him over. On the first of the Days of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and said, "Where do you want us to prepare your Passover meal?" He said, "Enter the city. Go up to a certain man and say, ‘The Teacher says, My time is near. I and my disciples plan to celebrate the Passover meal at your house.'" The disciples followed Jesus' instructions to the letter, and prepared the Passover meal. After sunset, he and the Twelve were sitting around the table. During the meal, he said, "I have something hard but important to say to you: One of you is going to hand me over to the conspirators." They were stunned, and then began to ask, one after another, "It isn't me, is it, Master?" Jesus answered, "The one who hands me over is someone I eat with daily, one who passes me food at the table. In one sense the Son of Man is entering into a way of treachery well-marked by the Scriptures—no surprises here. In another sense that man who turns him in, turns traitor to the Son of Man—better never to have been born than do this!" Then Judas, already turned traitor, said, "It isn't me, is it, Rabbi?" Jesus said, "Don't play games with me, Judas." During the meal, Jesus took and blessed the bread, broke it, and gave it to his disciples: Take, eat. This is my body. Taking the cup and thanking God, he gave it to them: Drink this, all of you. This is my blood, God's new covenant poured out for many people for the forgiveness of sins. "I'll not be drinking wine from this cup again until that new day when I'll drink with you in the kingdom of my Father." They sang a hymn and went directly to Mount Olives. Then Jesus told them, "Before the night's over, you're going to fall to pieces because of what happens to me. There is a Scripture that says, I'll strike the shepherd; helter-skelter the sheep will be scattered. But after I am raised up, I, your Shepherd, will go ahead of you, leading the way to Galilee." Peter broke in, "Even if everyone else falls to pieces on account of you, I won't." "Don't be so sure," Jesus said. "This very night, before the rooster crows up the dawn, you will deny me three times." Peter protested, "Even if I had to die with you, I would never deny you." All the others said the same thing. Then Jesus went with them to a garden called Gethsemane and told his disciples, "Stay here while I go over there and pray." Taking along Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he plunged into an agonizing sorrow. Then he said, "This sorrow is crushing my life out. Stay here and keep vigil with me." Going a little ahead, he fell on his face, praying, "My Father, if there is any way, get me out of this. But please, not what I want. You, what do you want?" When he came back to his disciples, he found them sound asleep. He said to Peter, "Can't you stick it out with me a single hour? Stay alert; be in prayer so you don't wander into temptation without even knowing you're in danger. There is a part of you that is eager, ready for anything in God. But there's another part that's as lazy as an old dog sleeping by the fire." He then left them a second time. Again he prayed, "My Father, if there is no other way than this, drinking this cup to the dregs, I'm ready. Do it your way." When he came back, he again found them sound asleep. They simply couldn't keep their eyes open. This time he let them sleep on, and went back a third time to pray, going over the same ground one last time. When he came back the next time, he said, "Are you going to sleep on and make a night of it? My time is up, the Son of Man is about to be handed over to the hands of sinners. Get up! Let's get going! My betrayer is here." The words were barely out of his mouth when Judas (the one from the Twelve) showed up, and with him a gang from the high priests and religious leaders brandishing swords and clubs. The betrayer had worked out a sign with them: "The one I kiss, that's the one—seize him." He went straight to Jesus, greeted him, "How are you, Rabbi?" and kissed him. Jesus said, "Friend, why this charade?" Then they came on him—grabbed him and roughed him up. One of those with Jesus pulled his sword and, taking a swing at the Chief Priest's servant, cut off his ear. Jesus said, "Put your sword back where it belongs. All who use swords are destroyed by swords. Don't you realize that I am able right now to call to my Father, and twelve companies—more, if I want them—of fighting angels would be here, battle-ready? But if I did that, how would the Scriptures come true that say this is the way it has to be?" Then Jesus addressed the mob: "What is this—coming out after me with swords and clubs as if I were a dangerous criminal? Day after day I have been sitting in the Temple teaching, and you never so much as lifted a hand against me. You've done it this way to confirm and fulfill the prophetic writings." Then all the disciples cut and ran. The gang that had seized Jesus led him before Caiaphas the Chief Priest, where the religion scholars and leaders had assembled. Peter followed at a safe distance until they got to the Chief Priest's courtyard. Then he slipped in and mingled with the servants, watching to see how things would turn out. The high priests, conspiring with the Jewish Council, tried to cook up charges against Jesus in order to sentence him to death. But even though many stepped up, making up one false accusation after another, nothing was believable. Finally two men came forward with this: "He said, ‘I can tear down this Temple of God and after three days rebuild it.'" ⁶² The Chief Priest stood up and said, "What do you have to say to the accusation?" ⁶³ Jesus kept silent. Then the Chief Priest said, "I command you by the authority of the living God to say if you are the Messiah, the Son of God." ⁶⁴ Jesus was curt: "You yourself said it. And that's not all. Soon you'll see it for yourself: The Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Mighty One, Arriving on the clouds of heaven." ⁶⁵At that, the Chief Priest lost his temper, ripping his robes, yelling, "He blasphemed! Why do we need witnesses to accuse him? You all heard him blaspheme! Are you going to stand for such blasphemy?" They all said, "Death! That seals his death sentence." ⁶⁷Then they were spitting in his face and banging him around. They jeered as they slapped him: "Prophesy, Messiah: Who hit you that time?"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

found none: Daniel 6:4, Daniel 6:5, Titus 2:8, 1 Peter 3:16

At: Deuteronomy 19:15, Mark 14:57-59

Reciprocal: Exodus 20:16 - General Leviticus 19:16 - stand 1 Kings 21:10 - two men Psalms 27:12 - false Psalms 35:11 - False witnesses Proverbs 24:28 - not Isaiah 32:7 - instruments Jeremiah 20:10 - I heard Mark 14:55 - sought Luke 6:7 - that Luke 23:2 - forbidding John 2:19 - Destroy John 18:21 - ask Acts 6:11 - they Acts 24:9 - General Acts 25:7 - and laid 2 Corinthians 13:1 - In

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But found none,.... That were fit for their purpose;

yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none; whose testimonies were sufficient to put him to death, which was what they were resolved upon, or whose witness were not alike and agreed; for according to their law, a man must not die by the mouth of one witness only, but by the mouth of two or three witnesses agreed in a point; and though they might be willing enough to dispense with the law in this case, yet might have some regard to their own character and reputation; and especially as they meant to deliver him to the Roman governor, in order to be condemned by him; they knew they must have a charge, and this supported with a proper evidence, or they could not hope to succeed; for which reason, they could not put up, as they otherwise willingly would, with any sort of witnesses:

at the last came two false witnesses; who were agreed in a point, and whose testimonies were alike; at least, had a greater appearance of truth and agreement than the rest; though Mark says, "neither so did their witnesses agree together", Mark 14:59, as to prove the point, for which it was given.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Found none - That is, they found none on whose testimony they could with any show of reason convict him. The reason was, as Mark says Mark 14:56, that “their witnesses agreed not together.” They differed about facts, times, and circumstances, as all false witnesses do. Two witnesses were required by their law, and they did not “dare” to condemn him without conforming, “in appearance” at least, to the requirements of the law.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 60. Though many false witnesses came — There is an unaccountable confusion in the MSS. in this verse: without stating the variations, which may be seen in Griesbach, I shall give that which I believe to be the genuine sense of the evangelist. Then the chief priests and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death; but they found it not, though many false witnesses came up. At last two false witnesses came up, saying; This man said, c. It is the property of falsity to be ever inconsistent, and to contradict itself therefore they could not find two consistent testimonies, without which the Jewish law did not permit any person to be put to death. However, the hand of God was in this business: for the credit of Jesus, and the honour of the Christian religion, he would not permit him to be condemned on a false accusation; and, therefore, at last they were obliged to change their ground, and, to the eternal confusion of the unrighteous council, he is condemned on the very evidence of his own innocence, purity, and truth!