Text -- Luke 22:71 (NET)

22:71 Then they said, “Why do we need further testimony? We have heard it ourselves from his own lips!”

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Luk 22:71

¹ tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

² sn We have heard it ourselves. The Sanhedrin regarded the answer as convicting Jesus. They saw it as blasphemous to claim such intimacy and shared authority with God, a claim so serious and convicting that no further testimony was needed.

³ tn Grk “from his own mouth” (an idiom).