Song # 1911.1 from Our Gospel In Song Collection by Col Johnston. We read in Matthew chapter 26 that Jesus was arrested and taken to the Sanhedrin where He faced Caiaphas the high priest and the whole Sanhedrin.
(Sanhedrin: Supreme Council and Court in ancient Jerusalem).
Those who had arrested Jesus took Him to Caiaphas, the high priest, where the teachers of the law and the elders had assembled (Matthew 26:57). But Peter followed Him at a distance, right up to the courtyard of the high priest. He entered and sat down with the guards to see the outcome (Matthew 26:58). The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for false evidence against Jesus so that they could put Him to death (Matthew 26:59). But they did not find any, though many false witnesses came forward. Finally two came forward (Matthew 26:60), and declared “This fellow said ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God and rebuild it in three days’” (Matthew 26:61). Then the high priest stood up and said to Jesus “Are you not going to answer? What is this testimony that these men are bringing against you?” (Matthew 26:62). But Jesus remained 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” (Matthew 26:63). “Yes, it is as you say” Jesus replied, “But I say to all of you, in the future you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven” (Matthew 26:64).
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