Mark 14:63

The high priest tore his clothes, and said, “What further need have we of witnesses?

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WEBBE

The high priest tore his clothes and said, “What further need have we of witnesses?

BSB

At this, the high priest tore his clothes and declared, “Why do we need any more witnesses?

KJV

Then the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, What need we any further witnesses?

ASV

And the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, What further need have we of witnesses?

BBE

And the high priest, violently parting his robes, said, What more need have we of witnesses?

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ὁ ho (the) G3588 δὲ de And G1161 ἀρχιερεὺς archiereus the high priest G749 διαρρήξας diarrēxas having torn G1284 τοὺς tous the G3588 χιτῶνας chitōnas garments G5509 αὐτοῦ autou of him G846 λέγει legei says G3004 τί ti What G5101 ἔτι eti any more G2089 χρείαν chreian need G5532 ἔχομεν echomen have we G2192 μαρτύρων; marturōn of witnesses G3144

The early church

(Serm. 5. de Pass.) But Caiaphas, to increase the odiousness of what they had heard rent his clothes, and without knowing what his frantic action meant, by his madness, deprived himself of the honour of the priesthood, forgetting that command, by which it is said of the High Priest, He shall not uncover his head or rend his clothes. For there follows: Then the High Priest rent his clothes, and saith, What need we any further witnesses? Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye?
Leo the Great · d. 461Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
(ubi sup.) But it was also with a higher mystery, that in the Passion of our Lord the Jewish priest rent his own clothes, that is, his ephod, whilst the garment of the Lord could not be rent, even by the soldiers, who crucified Him. For it was a figure that the Jewish priesthood was to be rent on account of the wickedness of the priests themselves. But the solid strength of the Church, which is often called the garment of her Redeemer, can never be torn asunder.
Bede · d. 735Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
The High Priest does after the manner of the Jews; for whenever any thing intolerable or sad occurred to them, they used to rend their clothes. In order then to show that Christ had spoken great and intolerable blasphemy, he rent his clothes.
Theophylact of Ohrid · d. 1107Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 53–65

We have here Christ's condemnation before the great council of the Jews. Peter followed; but the high priest's fire-side was no proper place, nor his servants proper company, for Peter: it was an entrance into temptation. Great diligence was used to procure false witnesses against Jesus, yet their testimony was not equal to the charge of a capital crime, by the utmost stretch of their law. He was asked, Art thou the Son of the Blessed? that is, the Son of God. For the proof of his being the Son of God, he refers to his second coming. In these outrages we have proofs of man's enmity to God, and of God's free and unspeakable love to man.

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