Before the Council

63And the men who were holding him mocked him while beating him,

64And after covering him, they kept asking, saying, “Prophesy! Who is the one who struck you?”

65And they were saying many other blasphemous things against him.

66And when day came, the council of the elders of the people gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away into their Sanhedrin,

67saying, “If you are the Messiah, tell us.” But he said to them, “If I tell you, you will certainly not believe;”

68But if I ask, you will certainly not answer.

69But from now on the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.

70Then they all said, “So you are the Son of God?” And he said to them, “You say that I am.”

71Then they said, “Why do we still need testimony? For we ourselves have heard it from his own mouth.”