Matthäus 26:63

Lutherbibel

Aber Jesus schwieg still. Und der Hohepriester antwortete und sprach zu ihm: Ich beschwöre dich bei dem lebendigen Gott, daß du uns sagest, ob du seist Christus, der Sohn Gottes.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Jesus aber schwieg. Und der Hohepriester antwortete und sprach zu ihm: Ich beschwöre dich bei dem lebendigen Gott, daß du uns sagst, ob du der Christus, der Sohn Gottes bist!

Bible Verse Review
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Jesus: Psalms 38:12-14, Isaiah 53:7, Daniel 3:16, Acts 8:32-35, 1 Peter 2:23

I adjure: Leviticus 5:1, Numbers 5:19-21, 1 Samuel 14:24, 1 Samuel 14:26, 1 Samuel 14:28, 1 Kings 22:16, 2 Chronicles 18:15, Proverbs 29:24

that: Mark 14:61, Luke 22:66-71, John 8:25, John 10:24, John 18:37

the Christ: Matthew 16:16, Matthew 27:40, Matthew 27:43, Matthew 27:54, Psalms 2:6, Psalms 2:7, Isaiah 9:6, Isaiah 9:7, John 1:34, John 1:49, John 3:16-18, John 5:18-25, John 6:69, John 10:30, John 10:36, John 19:7, John 20:31, 1 John 5:11-13

Reciprocal: Exodus 20:7 - take Deuteronomy 5:26 - living Joshua 6:26 - adjured 1 Samuel 3:17 - God Ezra 10:5 - made Nehemiah 5:12 - I called Song of Solomon 2:7 - charge you Jeremiah 10:10 - the living Matthew 14:33 - Of Matthew 27:12 - General Mark 5:7 - I adjure Mark 9:7 - This Mark 12:6 - one Mark 14:60 - General Luke 1:35 - the Son of God Luke 4:41 - Thou Luke 9:20 - The Luke 22:67 - Art John 4:26 - I that John 8:6 - as though Acts 9:20 - that Acts 19:13 - adjure Romans 1:3 - his Son 2 Corinthians 1:19 - the Son 1 Thessalonians 5:27 - I charge Hebrews 1:2 - spoken Revelation 7:2 - living

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But Jesus held his peace,.... Knowing it would signify nothing, whatever he should say, they being set upon his death, the time of which was now come; and therefore he quietly submits, and says nothing in his own defence to prevent it. To be silent in a court of judicature, Apollonius Tyanaeus c says, is the fourth virtue; this Christ had, and all others:

and the high priest answered and said unto him; though Christ had said nothing, a way of speaking very frequent among the Jews, and in the sacred writings:

I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God; the Christ; the anointed, that David speaks of in the second Psalm, and who is there said to be the Son of God, Psalms 2:2, to which the high priest seems to have respect; since there is no other passage, in which both these characters meet; and which was understood by the ancient Jews of the Messiah, as is owned by modern ones d. Jesus was given out to be the Messiah, and his disciples believed him to be the Son of God, and he had affirmed himself to be so; wherefore the high priest, exerting his priestly power and authority, puts him upon his oath; or at least with an oath made by the living God, charges him to tell the truth, and which when ever any heard the voice of swearing, he was obliged to do, Leviticus 5:1.

c Philostrat. Vita Apollouii, l. 8. c. 1. d Jarchi & Aben Ezra in Psal. ii. 1. & Kimchi in ver. 12.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jesus held his peace - Was silent. He knew that the evidence did not even appear to amount to anything worth a reply. He knew that they were aware of that, and that feeling that, the high priest attempted to draw something from him on which they could condemn him.

I adjure thee by the living God - I put thee upon thy oath before God. This was the usual form of putting an oath among the Jews. It implies calling God to witness the truth of what was said. The law respecting witnesses also made it a violation of an oath to conceal any part of the truth; and though our Saviour might have felt that such a question, put in such a manner, was very improper or was unlawful, yet he also knew that to be silent would be construed into a denial of his being the Christ. The question was probably put in auger. They had utterly failed in their proof. They had no way left to accomplish their purpose of condemning him but to draw it from his own lips. This cunning question was therefore proposed. The difficulty of the question consisted in this: If he confessed that he was the Son of God, they stood ready to condemn him for “blasphemy;” if he denied it, they were prepared to condemn him for being an impostor, and for deluding the people under the pretence of being the Messiah.

The living God - Yahweh is called the living God in opposition to idols, which were without life.

The Christ - The Messiah, the Anointed. See the notes at Matthew 1:1.

The Son of God - The Jews uniformly expected that the Messiah would be the Son of God. In their view it denoted, also, that he would be “divine,” or equal to the Father, John 10:31-36. To claim that title was therefore, in their view, “blasphemy;” and as they had determined beforehand in their own minds that he was not the Messiah, they were ready at once to accuse him of blasphemy.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 63. I adjure thee by the living God — I put thee to thy oath. To this solemn adjuration Christ immediately replies, because he is now called on, in the name of God, to bear another testimony to the truth. The authority of God in the most worthless magistrate should be properly respected. However necessary our Lord saw it to be silent, when the accusations were frivolous, and the evidence contradictory, he felt no disposition to continue this silence, when questioned concerning a truth, for which he came into the world to shed his blood.