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.^* ⁵⁶For 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.” ⁶³And the high priest tore his clothes and^* said, “What further need do we have of witnesses? ⁶⁴You have heard the blasphemy! What do you think?”^q And they all condemned him as deserving death.^r ⁶⁵And some began to spit on him and to cover his face and to strike him with their fists, and to say to him “Prophesy!” And the officers received him with slaps in the face.^s

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Footnotes

*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
nLiterally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“stood up”) has been translated as a finite verb
oThe imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to give false testimony”)
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“stood up”) has been translated as a finite verb
pAn indirect way of referring to God
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“tore”) has been translated as a finite verb
qLiterally “does it seem to you”
rLiterally “to be deserving of death”
sOr “with blows” (either meaning is possible here)