When he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.
Parallel translations
- KJV And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.
- BSB And when He was accused by the chief priests and elders, He gave no answer.
- NKJV And while He was being accused by the chief priests and elders, He answered nothing.
- NASB And while He was being accused by the chief priests and elders, He did not offer any answer.
- NLT But when the leading priests and the elders made their accusations against him, Jesus remained silent.
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- Matt 26:63But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”
- Isa 53:7He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.
- Matt 27:14He gave him no answer, not even one word, so that the governor marveled greatly.
- Mark 15:3–5The chief priests accused him of many things.
- Acts 8:32Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, so he doesn’t open his mouth.
- John 19:9–11He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.
- 1 Pet 2:23Who, when he was cursed, didn’t curse back. When he suffered, didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;
- Ps 38:13–14But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.
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