SEV Biblia, Chapter 26:66
¿Qu os parece? Y respondiendo ellos, dijeron: Culpado es de muerte.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Matthew 26:66
Verse 66. He is guilty of death.] enocov qanatou esti, 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.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 66. What think ye ? etc.] 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 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.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 57-68 - Jesus was hurried into Jerusalem. It looks ill, and bodes worse, when those who are willing to be Christ's disciples, are not willing to be known to be so. Here began Peter's denying him: for to follow Chris afar off, is to begin to go back from him. It is more our concern to prepare for the end, whatever it may be, than curiously to ask what the end will be. The event is God's, but the duty is ours. Now the Scriptures were fulfilled, which said, False witnesses are risen u against me. Christ was accused, that we might not be condemned; and i at any time we suffer thus, let us remember we cannot expect to far better than our Master. When Christ was made sin for us, he was silent and left it to his blood to speak. Hitherto Jesus had seldom professe expressly to be the Christ, the Son of God; the tenor of his doctrin spoke it, and his miracles proved it; but now he would not omit to make an open confession of it. It would have looked like declining his sufferings. He thus confessed, as an example and encouragement to his followers, to confess him before men, whatever hazard they ran Disdain, cruel mocking, and abhorrence, are the sure portion of the disciple as they were of the Master, from such as would buffet an deride the Lord of glory. These things were exactly foretold in the fiftieth chapter of Isaiah. Let us confess Christ's name, and bear the reproach, and he will confess us before his Father's throne.
Greek Textus Receptus
τι 5101 I-ASN υμιν 5213 P-2DP δοκει 1380 5719 V-PAI-3S οι 3588 T-NPM δε 1161 CONJ αποκριθεντες 611 5679 V-AOP-NPM ειπον 2036 5627 V-2AAI-3P ενοχος 1777 A-NSM θανατου 2288 N-GSM εστιν 2076 5748 V-PXI-3S
Vincent's NT Word Studies
66. Guilty of death (enocov qanatou). Rev., worthy of death. See on Matt. xxiii. 18. ejn, in, ecw, to hold. The idea is, literally, holden of death; in bonds to death.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
26:66 {He is worthy of death} (enocos qanatou estin). Held in the bonds of death (en, ecw) as actually guilty with the genitive (qanatou). The dative expresses liability as in #Mt 5:21 (ti krisei) and as eis and the accusative (#Mt 5:22). They took the vote though it was at night and they no longer had the power of death since the Romans took it away from them. Death was the penalty of blasphemy (#Le 24:15). But they enjoyed taking it as their answer to his unanswerable speeches in the temple that dreadful Tuesday a few days before. It was unanimous save that Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus did not agree. They were probably absent and not even invited as being under suspicion for being secret disciples of Christ.
