Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy.
Ver. 65. Then the high priest rent his clothes] Which the high priest ought not by the law to have done, howsoever, Leviticus 10:6; Leviticus 21:10, and here had no colour of cause at all to do; no, not so much as Joab had, when for company, and at his Lord's command, he rent his clothes at Abner's funeral, whom he had basely murdered, 2 Samuel 3:31 .