Mark 14:55 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

all the. the whole.

council. Sanhedrin.

sought for witness against. were seeking, 7c. This was contrary to their rule: "In judgments against the life of any man, they begin first to transact about quitting the party who is tried, and they begin not with those things which make for his condemnation". Sanhedr. cap.. (cited by Lightfoot, Pitman's ed., xi. 442) See the new edition of The Babylonian Talmud, vol. viii, p. 100. N. Talmud Pub. Co., N. Y., USA.

against. Greek. kata. App-104. As in verses: Mark 14:56; Mark 14:57.

found none. did not (App-105) find [any].

Mark 14:55

55 And the chief priests and all the council sought for witness against Jesus to put him to death; and found none.