Matthew 26:66

Amplified Bible

"What do you think?" They answered, "He deserves to be put to death."

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
What is your decision?”

King James Version (1611)
What thinke ye? They answered and said, He is guiltie of death.

King James Version
What think ye? They answered and said, He is guilty of death.

English Standard Version
What is your judgment?" They answered, "He deserves death."

New American Standard Bible
what do you think?" They answered, "He deserves death!"

New Century Version
What do you think?" The people answered, "He should die."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
what do you think?" They answered, "He deserves death!"

Legacy Standard Bible
what do you think?" They answered and said, "He deserves death!"

Berean Standard Bible
What do you think?" "He deserves to die," they answered.

Contemporary English Version
What do you think?" They answered, "He is guilty and deserves to die!"

Complete Jewish Bible
What is your verdict?" "Guilty," they answered. "He deserves death!"

Darby Translation
What think ye? And they answering said, He is liable to the penalty of death.

Easy-to-Read Version
What do you think?" The Jewish leaders answered, "He is guilty, and he must die."

Geneva Bible (1587)
What thinke yee? They answered, and said, He is guiltie of death.

George Lamsa Translation
What else do you want? They answered and said, He is guilty of death.

Good News Translation
What do you think?" They answered, "He is guilty and must die."

Lexham English Bible
What do you think?" And they answered and said, "He deserves death!"

Literal Translation
What does it seem to you? And answering, they said, He is liable to death.

American Standard Version
what think ye? They answered and said, He is worthy of death.

Bible in Basic English
What is your opinion? They made answer and said, It is right for him to be put to death.

Hebrew Names Version
What do you think?" They answered, "He is worthy of death!"

International Standard Version
What is your verdict?"They replied, "He deserves to die!"Leviticus 24:16; John 19:7;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
What will you ? They answered saying, He deserves death.

Murdock Translation
What is your pleasure? They answered and said: He is liable to death.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
What thynke ye? They aunswered and sayde: he is worthy to dye.

English Revised Version
what think ye? They answered and said, He is worthy of death.

World English Bible
What do you think?" They answered, "He is worthy of death!"

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
What think ye? They answering said, He is guilty of death.

Weymouth's New Testament
What is your verdict?" "He deserves to die," they replied.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei answeriden, and seiden, He is gilti of deeth.

Update Bible Version
what do you think? They answered and said, He is worthy of death.

Webster's Bible Translation
What think ye? They answered and said, He is guilty of death.

New English Translation
What is your verdict?" They answered, "He is guilty and deserves death."

New King James Version
What do you think?" They answered and said, "He is deserving of death."

New Living Translation
What is your verdict?" "Guilty!" they shouted. "He deserves to die!"

New Life Bible
What do you think?" They said, "He is guilty of death!"

New Revised Standard
What is your verdict?" They answered, "He deserves death."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
How, to you, doth it seem? And, they, answering, said: Guilty of death, he is.

Douay-Rheims Bible
What think you? But they answering, said: He is guilty of death.

Revised Standard Version
What is your judgment?" They answered, "He deserves death."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
what thinke ye? They answered and sayd: he his worthy to dye.

Young's Literal Translation
what think ye?' and they answering said, `He is worthy of death.'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
What thinke ye? They answered, & sayde: He is gyltie of death.

Mace New Testament (1729)
what is your opinion? they reply'd, he deserves to die.

Simplified Cowboy Version
"String him up!" they yelled.

Contextual Overview

⁵⁷Those who had seized Jesus led Him away to Caiaphas, the high priest, where the scribes and the elders (Sanhedrin, Jewish High Court) had gathered [illegally] together. ⁵⁸But Peter followed Him at a distance as far as the courtyard of the [elegant home of the Jewish] high priest, and went inside, and sat with the guards to see the outcome. ⁵⁹Now the chief priests and the whole Council (Sanhedrin, Jewish High Court) tried to get false witnesses to testify against Jesus, so that they might [have a reason to] put Him to death. ⁶⁰They found none, even though many false witnesses came forward. At last two came forward, ⁶¹and testified, "This man said, 'I am able to tear down the temple of God and rebuild it in three days.'" ⁶²The high priest stood up and said to Jesus, "Have You no answer to give? What is it that these men are testifying against You?" ⁶³But Jesus kept silent. And the high priest said to Him, "I call on You to swear a binding oath by the living God, that you tell us whether You are the Christ, the Son of God." ⁶⁴Jesus said to him, "You have [in fact] said it; but more than that I tell you [regardless of what you do with Me now], in the future you will see [Me revealed as] THE SON OF MAN SEATED AT THE RIGHT HAND OF POWER, and COMING ON THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN." ⁶⁵Then the high priest tore his robes [in mock horror] and exclaimed, "He has blasphemed [by making Himself God's equal]! What further need have we of witnesses or evidence? See, you have now heard the blasphemy. ⁶⁶"What do you think?" They answered, "He deserves to be put to death."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

He: Leviticus 24:11-16, John 19:7, Acts 7:52, Acts 13:27, Acts 13:28, James 5:6

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 21:22 - General Psalms 22:7 - shoot out Psalms 109:20 - them Isaiah 53:8 - General Jeremiah 26:11 - saying Matthew 20:18 - they Mark 10:33 - condemn Mark 14:64 - General Luke 22:71 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

What think ye?.... Of the words just now spoken by him; do not they in your opinion amount to a charge of blasphemy and what punishment do you think ought to be inflicted on him? is he guilty of death, or not? This question he put, as being president of the court:

they answered and said, he is guilty of death; they were unanimous in their vote, for Mark says, "they all condemned him to be guilty of death"; only Joseph of Arimathea must be excepted, who consented not to their counsel and deed, Luke 23:51, and so must Nicodemus, if he was present; who seeing what they were determined to do, withdrew themselves before the question came to be put, and so it passed "nemine contradicente"; and indeed, if he had been guilty of blasphemy, as they charged him, the sentence would have been right. Now this was in the night, in which they begun, carried on, and finished this judicial procedure, quite contrary to one of their own canons w which runs thus:

"pecuniary causes they try in the day, and finish in the night; capital causes (such was this) they try in the day, and finish in the day; pecuniary causes they finish the same day, whether for absolution, or condemnation; capital causes they finish the same day for absolution, and the day following for condemnation; wherefore they do not try causes neither on the sabbath eve, nor on the eve of a feast day.''

But in this case, they begun the trial in the night, examined the witnesses, finished it, and passed the sentence of condemnation, and that in the eve of a grand festival, their Chagigah.

w Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 4. sect. 1. Maimom. Hilch. Sanhedrin, c. 11. sect. 1, 2. T. Hieros. Yom Tob, fol. 63. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

What think ye? - What is your opinion? What sentence do you pronounce? As President of the Sanhedrin he demanded their judgment.

He is guilty of death - This was the form which was used when a criminal was condemned to die. The meaning is, he is guilty of a crime to which the law annexes death. This sentence was used before the Jews became subject to the Romans, when they had the power of inflicting death. After they were subject to the Romans, though the power of inflicting capital punishment” was taken away, yet they retained the form when they expressed their opinion of the guilt of an offender. The law under which they condemned him was that recorded in Leviticus 24:10-16, which sentenced him that was guilty of blasphemy to death by stoning. The chief priests, however, were unwilling to excite a popular tumult by stoning him, and they therefore consulted to deliver him to the Romans to be crucified, “under the authority of the Roman name,” and thus to prevent any excitement among the people.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 66. He is guilty of death. — ενοχος θανατου εστι, he is liable to death. All the forms of justice are here violated. The judge becomes a party and accuser, and proceeds to the verdict without examining whether all the prophecies concerning the Messiah, and the innumerable miracles which he wrought, did not justify him. Examination and proof are the ruin of all calumnies, and of the authors of them, and therefore they take care to keep off from these two things. See Quesnel.