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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“What do you think?” They answered, and they said, “He deserves death.”

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
What think you? But they answering, said: He is guilty of death.

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!"

Literal Standard Version
what do you think?” And they answering said, “He is worthy of death.”

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

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

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

New Revised Standard Version
What is your verdict?” They answered, “He 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!”

Young's Literal Translation
what think ye?' and they answering said, 'He is worthy of 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
Leviticus 24:16
Whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD must surely be put to death; the whole assembly must surely stone him, whether he is a foreign resident or native; if he blasphemes the Name, he must be put to death.

Deuteronomy 21:22
If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,

Jeremiah 26:11
Then the priests and prophets said to the officials and all the people, "This man is worthy of death, for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears!"

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."


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:

Jump to Previous
Death Deserves Die Guilty Judgment Liable Opinion Penalty Right Think Verdict Worthy
Jump to Next
Death Deserves Die Guilty Judgment Liable Opinion Penalty Right Think Verdict Worthy
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.














(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.

Parallel Commentaries ...


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.


Links
Matthew 26:66 NIV
Matthew 26:66 NLT
Matthew 26:66 ESV
Matthew 26:66 NASB
Matthew 26:66 KJV

Matthew 26:66 BibleApps.com
Matthew 26:66 Biblia Paralela
Matthew 26:66 Chinese Bible
Matthew 26:66 French Bible
Matthew 26:66 Catholic Bible

NT Gospels: Matthew 26:66 What do you think? They answered He (Matt. Mat Mt)
Matthew 26:65
Top of Page
Top of Page