Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye? And they all condemned him to be guilty of death.
Ye have heard the blasphemy. (See John 10:33.) In Luke (Luke 22:71), "For we ourselves have heard of his own mouth" - an affectation of religious horror.
What think ye? 'Say what the verdict is to be.'
And they all condemned him to be guilty of death - or of a capital crime, which blasphemy against God was according to the Jewish law (Leviticus 24:16). Yet not absolutely all; because Joseph of Arimathea, "a good man and a just," was one of that Council, and 'he was not a consenting party to the counsel and deed of them,' for that is the strict sense of the words of Luke 23:50-51 х ouk (G3756) een (G2258) sungkatatheimenos (G4784) tee (G3588) boulee (G1012) kai (G2532) tee (G3588) praxei (G4234) autoon (G846)]. Probably he absented himself, and Nicodemus also, from this meeting of the Council, the temper of which they would know too well to expect their voice to be listened to; and in that case, the words of our Evangelist are to be taken strictly, that, without one dissentient voice, "all [present] condemned Him to be guilty of death."
Every word here must be carefully observed, and the several accounts put together, that we may lose none of the awful indignities about to be described.