Isaiah 53:7
53:7 He was treated harshly and afflicted,
but he did not even open his mouth.
Like a lamb led to the slaughtering block,
like a sheep silent before her shearers,
he did not even open his mouth.
Matthew 26:57-68
Condemned by the Sanhedrin
26:57 Now the ones who had arrested Jesus led him to Caiaphas, the high priest, in whose house the experts in the law and the elders had gathered.
26:58 But Peter was following him from a distance, all the way to the high priest’s courtyard. After going in, he sat with the guards to see the outcome.
26:59 The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were trying to find false testimony against Jesus so that they could put him to death.
26:60 But they did not find anything, though many false witnesses came forward. Finally two came forward
26:61 and declared, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God and rebuild it in three days.’”
26:62 So the high priest stood up and said to him, “Have you no answer? What is this that they are testifying against you?”
26:63 But Jesus was silent. The high priest said to him, “I charge you under oath by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.”
26:64 Jesus said to him, “You have said it yourself. But I tell you, from now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power and coming on the clouds of heaven.”
26:65 Then the high priest tore his clothes and declared, “He has blasphemed! Why do we still need witnesses? Now you have heard the blasphemy!
26:66 What is your verdict?” They answered, “He is guilty and deserves death.”
26:67 Then they spat in his face and struck him with their fists. And some slapped him,
26:68 saying, “Prophesy for us, you Christ! Who hit you?”
Luke 22:54-62
Jesus’ Condemnation and Peter’s Denials
22:54 Then they arrested Jesus, led him away, and brought him into the high priest’s house. But Peter was following at a distance.
22:55 When they had made a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat down among them.
22:56 Then a slave girl, seeing him as he sat in the firelight, stared at him and said, “This man was with him too!”
22:57 But Peter denied it: “Woman, I don’t know him!”
22:58 Then a little later someone else saw him and said, “You are one of them too.” But Peter said, “Man, I am not!”
22:59 And after about an hour still another insisted, “Certainly this man was with him, because he too is a Galilean.”
22:60 But Peter said, “Man, I don’t know what you’re talking about!” At that moment, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.
22:61 Then the Lord turned and looked straight at Peter, and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, “Before a rooster crows today, you will deny me three times.”
22:62 And he went outside and wept bitterly.
John 18:13-14
18:13 They
brought him first to Annas, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.
18:14 (Now it was Caiaphas who had advised
the Jewish leaders
that it was to their advantage that one man die for the people.)
John 18:24
18:24 Then Annas sent him, still tied up,
to Caiaphas the high priest.