Mark 14:53–62

Jesus Before the Sanhedrin

⁵³And they led Jesus away to the high priest, and all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes came together. ⁵⁴And Peter followed him from a distance, right inside, into the courtyard of the high priest. And he was sitting with the officers and warming himself by the fire. ⁵⁵Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for testimony against Jesus in order to put him to death, and they did not find it.^{* 56}For many gave false testimony against him, and theirⁿ testimony was not consistent. ⁵⁷And some stood up and^* began to give false testimony^o against him, saying, ⁵⁸“We heard him saying, ‘I will destroy this temple made by hands, and within three days I will build another not made by hands.” ⁵⁹And their testimony was not even consistent about this. ⁶⁰And the high priest stood up in the midst of them and^* asked Jesus, saying, “Do you not reply anything? What are these people testifying against you?” ⁶¹But he was silent and did not reply anything. Again the high priest asked him and said to him, “Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?” ⁶²And Jesus said, “I am, and you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power^p and coming with the clouds of heaven.”