14:62
The latter point is brought out all the more clearly in Jesus’ reply. He affirms that He is the Messiah and the Son of God. Interestingly He also sticks with the title Son of Man as well. Then, as He often did, He makes the situation “worse”, ie far from compromising He makes the situation even more acute. Jesus tells them that one day they would see Him seated at the right hand of God. There is now no doubt about the situation.
14:63
The high priest knew exactly what Jesus was saying, there was no room for “interpretation”. So he tore his clothes, this is a common idiom in the Bible, representing repentance or horror at what one has done, or what someone else has done. In this case it was the amazing claims of Jesus.
14:64,65
In the eyes of the high priest Jesus had blasphemed, He had claimed equality with God. So the “court” was unanimously agreed that Jesus must die, He was deserving of death. So they mocked Jesus and spat upon Him, and He was beaten with many blows. All this was outside the proper functioning of the court. They also had the problem that they did not have the authority to actually put Jesus to death, which is why the Romans had to be brought into the picture.
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