Even so, their testimony didn’t agree.
Parallel Translations
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Even so, their testimony didn’t agree.
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But their witnes agreed not to geder.
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But their witnesse yet agreed not together.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Then the high priest rent his clothes,.... As was…
Then the high priest rent his clothes,.... As was usual upon hearing blasphemy; which he now supposed the case, or at least would have it so thought:
and saith, what need we any further witnesses? or trouble ourselves to see for any more, or to hear and take the depositions of any others; See Gill on Mat 26:65.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 59. neither so] The utterance of words tending to…
59. neither so] The utterance of words tending to bring the Temple into contempt was regarded as so grave an offence that it afterwards formed a capital charge against the first martyr, Stephen (Act_6:13). But dangerous as was the charge, it broke down. The statements of the witnesses did not tally, and their testimony was therefore worthless. Their memories had travelled over three years to the occasion of the first Passover at Jerusalem and the first cleansing of the Temple. But they perverted the real facts of the case (Joh_2:18-22). St Mark alone notices the disagreement of their testimony. “The differences between the recorded words of our Lord and the reports of the witnesses are striking: ‘I can destroy’ (Mat_26:61); ‘I will destroy’ (Mar_14:58); as compared with ‘Destroy … and I will raise’ (Joh_2:19).” Westcott’s Introduction, p. 326 n.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (59) Neither so did their witness agree together.—This, again,…
(59) Neither so did their witness agree together.—This, again, is peculiar to St. Mark. We are not told in what respects their evidence failed to agree; possibly in details of time and place, possibly in the absence or presence of the words reported in the previous verse.
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