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Caiaphas and Jesus Christ
How Caiaphas and Jesus Christ are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Caiaphas confronted Jesus Christ.
Caiaphas had counselled that one man should die for the people. At the trial he put Jesus under oath, then rent his clothes at the answer and called it blasphemy.
Caiaphas was he, which gave counsel to the Jews, that it was expedient that one man should die for the people
John 18:14, King James Version
I adjure thee by the living God
Matthew 26:63, King James Version
Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy
Matthew 26:65, King James Version
Where they cross: Matthew 26:57-66
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
Matthew 26:57-66
57And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.
58But Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest’s palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end.
59Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
60But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses,
61And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
62And the high priest arose, and said unto him, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee?
63But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God.
64Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
65Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy.
66What think ye? They answered and said, He is guilty of death.
John 18:14
14Now Caiaphas was he, which gave counsel to the Jews, that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.
King James Version