Matthew 26:66
New International Version
What do you think?” “He is worthy of death,” they answered.

New Living Translation
What is your verdict?” “Guilty!” they shouted. “He deserves to die!”

English Standard Version
What is your judgment?” They answered, “He deserves death.”

Berean Standard Bible
What do you think?” “He deserves to die,” they answered.

Berean Literal Bible
What do you think?" And answering they said, "He is deserving of death."

King James Bible
What think ye? They answered and said, He is guilty of death.

New King James Version
What do you think?” They answered and said, “He is deserving of death.”

New American Standard Bible
what do you think?” They answered, “He deserves death!”

NASB 1995
what do you think?” They answered, “He deserves death!”

NASB 1977
what do you think?” They answered and said, “He is deserving of death!”

Legacy Standard Bible
what do you think?” They answered and said, “He deserves death!”

Amplified Bible
What do you think?” They answered, “He deserves to be put to death.”

Christian Standard Bible
What is your decision? ” They answered, “He deserves death! ”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
What is your decision?” They answered, “He deserves death!”

American Standard Version
what think ye? They answered and said, He is worthy of death.

Contemporary English Version
What do you think?" They answered, "He is guilty and deserves to die!"

English Revised Version
what think ye? They answered and said, He is worthy of death.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
What's your verdict?" They answered, "He deserves the death penalty!"

Good News Translation
What do you think?" They answered, "He is guilty and must die."

International Standard Version
What is your verdict?" They replied, "He deserves to die!"

Majority Standard Bible
What do you think?” “He deserves to die,” they answered.

NET Bible
What is your verdict?" They answered, "He is guilty and deserves death."

New Heart English Bible
What do you think?" They answered, "He is worthy of death."

Webster's Bible Translation
What think ye? They answered and said, He is guilty of death.

Weymouth New Testament
What is your verdict?" "He deserves to die," they replied.

World English Bible
What do you think?” They answered, “He is worthy of death!”
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
what do you think?” And they answering said, “He is worthy of death.”

Berean Literal Bible
What do you think?" And answering they said, "He is deserving of death."

Young's Literal Translation
what think ye?' and they answering said, 'He is worthy of death.'

Smith's Literal Translation
What seems to you? And they having answered, said, He is liable to the penalty of death.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
What think you? But they answering, said: He is guilty of death.

Catholic Public Domain Version
How does it seem to you?” So they responded by saying, “He is guilty unto death.”

New American Bible
what is your opinion?” They said in reply, “He deserves to die!”

New Revised Standard Version
What is your verdict?” They answered, “He deserves death.”
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
What else do you want? They answered and said, He is guilty of death.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“What do you think?” They answered, and they said, “He deserves death.”
NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
What think you? They answered and said: He is a subject for death.

Godbey New Testament
what seems to you? They responding said, He is worthy of death.

Haweis New Testament
what think ye? They answered and said, He is deserving of death.

Mace New Testament
what is your opinion? they reply'd, he deserves to die.

Weymouth New Testament
What is your verdict?" "He deserves to die," they replied.

Worrell New Testament
What think ye?" And they, answering, said, "He is worthy of death."

Worsley New Testament
and they answered, He ought to be put to death.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Jesus Faces the Sanhedrin
65At this, the high priest tore his clothes and declared, “He has blasphemed! Why do we need any more witnesses? Look, now you have heard the blasphemy. 66What do you think?” He deserves to die,” they answered. 67Then they spit in His face and struck Him. Others slapped Him…

Cross References
Isaiah 53:3-8
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not. / Surely He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted. / But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed. ...

John 19:7
“We have a law,” answered the Jews, “and according to that law He must die, because He declared Himself to be the Son of God.”

Acts 3:13-15
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His servant Jesus. You handed Him over and rejected Him before Pilate, even though he had decided to release Him. / You rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you. / You killed the Author of life, but God raised Him from the dead, and we are witnesses of this fact.

Mark 14:64
You have heard the blasphemy. What is your verdict?” And they all condemned Him as deserving of death.

Luke 22:71
“Why do we need any more testimony?” they declared. “We have heard it for ourselves from His own lips.”

John 18:31
“You take Him and judge Him by your own law,” Pilate told them. “We are not permitted to execute anyone,” the Jews replied.

Acts 2:23
He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.

Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—

Psalm 22:6-8
But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people. / All who see me mock me; they sneer and shake their heads: / “He trusts in the LORD, let the LORD deliver him; let the LORD rescue him, since He delights in him.”

John 5:18
Because of this, the Jews tried all the harder to kill Him. Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

John 10:33
“We are not stoning You for any good work,” said the Jews, “but for blasphemy, because You, who are a man, make Yourself out to be God.”

Acts 13:27-28
The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning Him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath. / And though they found no ground for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have Him executed.

1 Peter 2:22-24
“He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in His mouth.” / When they heaped abuse on Him, He did not retaliate; when He suffered, He made no threats, but entrusted Himself to Him who judges justly. / He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”

Isaiah 50:6
I offered My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who tore out My beard. I did not hide My face from scorn and spittle.

Zechariah 12:10
Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.


Treasury of Scripture

What think you? They answered and said, He is guilty of death.

He.

Leviticus 24:11-16
And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the LORD, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:) …

John 19:7
The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.

Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:

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Matthew 26
1. Jesus foretells his own death.
3. The rulers conspire against him.
6. The woman anoints his feet.
14. Judas bargains to betray him.
17. Jesus eats the Passover;
26. institutes his holy supper;
30. foretells the desertion of his disciples, and Peter's denial;
36. prays in the garden;
47. and being betrayed by a kiss,
57. is carried to Caiaphas,
69. and denied by Peter.














What do you think?
This phrase is a direct question posed by the high priest to the Sanhedrin, the Jewish council. In the Greek, "What do you think?" is "Τί ὑμῖν δοκεῖ;" (Ti hymin dokei?). The word "δοκεῖ" (dokei) implies a request for judgment or opinion, indicating the high priest's role in seeking a consensus from the council. Historically, this reflects the Jewish legal process where the Sanhedrin would deliberate on matters of law and justice. The question is rhetorical, as the high priest is steering the council towards a predetermined conclusion. This moment underscores the tension between Jesus and the religious authorities, highlighting their rejection of His messianic claims.

He deserves death
The phrase "He deserves death" is a translation of the Greek "ἔνοχος θανάτου ἐστίν" (enochos thanatou estin). The term "ἔνοχος" (enochos) means liable or guilty, and "θανάτου" (thanatou) refers to death. This declaration is the council's verdict, reflecting their belief that Jesus has committed blasphemy by claiming to be the Son of God. In the historical context, blasphemy was a capital offense under Jewish law, as outlined in Leviticus 24:16. This pronouncement of guilt is pivotal, as it sets the stage for Jesus' crucifixion. From a theological perspective, this moment is significant because it fulfills the prophecies of the suffering Messiah, who would be rejected and condemned by His own people.

(66) He is guilty of death.--In modern English the word "guilty" is almost always followed by the crime which a man has committed. In older use it was followed by the punishment which the man deserved. (Comp. Numbers 35:31.) The decision, as far as the meeting went, was unanimous. Sentence was passed. It remained, however, to carry the sentence into effect, and this, while the Roman governor was at Jerusalem, presented a difficulty which had to be met by proceedings of another kind. The Jews, or at least their rulers, who courted the favour of Rome, ostentatiously disclaimed the power of punishing capital offences (John 18:31).

Verse 66. - What think ye? He wishes to get a vote by acclamation, not in a formal way, as to the guilt of Christ and the punishment which he deserved. He is guilty of (ἔυοχος, worthy of, liable to) death. This was the punishment pronounced by the Law on blasphemy (Leviticus 24:16); the death was, however, to be by stoning (Acts 7:58). This detail, as they considered it, was now exclusively in the hands of the Romans. We see that this meeting, which virtually doomed Christ to death, was not a regular council of the Sanhedrin; for it was not held in the appointed chamber, and was conducted at night, when criminal processes were forbidden. The meeting next morning (Matthew 27:1) was convened for the purpose of considering how this informal sentence should be executed.

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Greek
What
τί (ti)
Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's 5101: Who, which, what, why. Probably emphatic of tis; an interrogative pronoun, who, which or what.

{do} you
ὑμῖν (hymin)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

think?”
δοκεῖ (dokei)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1380: A prolonged form of a primary verb, doko dok'-o of the same meaning; to think; by implication, to seem.

“He deserves
Ἔνοχος (Enochos)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 1777: Involved in, held in, hence: liable, generally with dat. (or gen.) of the punishment. From enecho; liable to.

to die,”
θανάτου (thanatou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 2288: Death, physical or spiritual. From thnesko; death.

they answered.
ἀποκριθέντες (apokrithentes)
Verb - Aorist Participle Passive - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 611: From apo and krino; to conclude for oneself, i.e. to respond; by Hebraism to begin to speak.


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