MARK 14:59 Interlinear View

1. Greek word
2. Greek lemma
3. OET-LV words
4. OET-RV words
5. Strongs
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10. Confidence
11. OET tags
12. OET word #
1. Καί
2. kai
3. And
4. But then
5. 25320
6. C·······
7. and
8. and
9. S
10. Y33
11. 35529
1. οὐδέ
2. oude
3. neither
4. -
5. 37610
6. D·······
7. neither
8. neither
9. -
10. Y33
11. 35530
1. οὕτως
2. houtōs
3. thus
4. -
5. 37790
6. D·······
7. thus
8. thus
9. -
10. Y33
11. 35531
1. ἴση
2. isos
3. same
4. -
5. 24700
6. S····NFS
7. same
8. same
9. -
10. Y33
11. 35532
1. ἦν
2. eimi
3. was
4. -
5. 15100
6. VIIA3··S
7. was
8. was
9. -
10. Y33
11. 35533
1. ἴση
2. isos
3. -
4. -
5. 24700
6. S····NFS
7. same
8. same
9. -
10. -
11. 35534
1. ἡ
2. ho
3. the
4. -
5. 35880
6. E····NFS
7. the
8. the
9. -
10. Y33
11. 35535
1. μαρτυρία
2. marturia
3. testimony
4. -
5. 31410
6. N····NFS
7. testimony
8. testimony
9. -
10. Y33
11. 35536
1. αὐτῶν
2. autos
3. of them
4. their
5. 8460
6. R···3GMP
7. ˱of˲ them
8. ˱of˲ them
9. -
10. Y33; R35498
11. 35537

SIL Open Translator’s Notes:

Section 14:53–65: The Jewish leaders decided that Jesus should die

After the crowd arrested Jesus, they took him to the high priest’s house. The Jewish leaders had gathered there to have Jesus’ trial in an upper level of that house. Peter followed the crowd at a distance and went into the courtyard outside the house. The Jewish leaders tried to find witnesses who would accuse Jesus of doing something against their law.

When the witnesses could not agree with each other, the high priest questioned Jesus. He wanted to learn about anything that Jesus had done wrong. Then he would use that as a good reason to take Jesus to the Roman governor, Pilate, for an official trial. When the high priest asked Jesus if he was the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One, Jesus said that he was. This allowed the Jewish leaders to accuse Jesus of blasphemy. They said that Jesus deserved to die. So they had a good reason to take Jesus to Pilate for trial to get the death sentence. Then they abused and mocked Jesus.

It is good to translate this section before you decide on a heading for it.

Here are some other possible headings for this section:

Jesus is tried/questioned by the Jewish council

The Jewish leaders condemned Jesus

Jesus’ trial before the leaders of the Jews

There are parallel passages for this section in Matthew 26:57–68, Luke 22:54, 66–71, and John 18:12–15, 19–24.

Paragraph 14:55–59

The chief priests and other leaders wanted to find witnesses who would testify that Jesus had disobeyed the law in a serious way. This testimony would give the leaders a reason to say that Jesus should be killed as a criminal. Jewish law required that at least two witnesses must accuse a person of doing the same offense. Only then could he be put to death. But the Jewish leaders were not able to find two witnesses who accused Jesus of exactly the same offense.

14:59

But even their testimony was inconsistent.

But even though they testified that, what they said was contradictory.
but even their reports of what Jesus had said did not agree.

But even their testimony was inconsistent: Even this serious accusation about destroying the temple failed to be adequate evidence against Jesus. It failed because not even two of the witnesses agreed with each other.

But even: The phrase that the BSB translates as But even means “even about this one point.” Even though the witnesses were now giving testimony only about the destruction of the temple, they still did not agree with each other.

In Greek the phrase But even has a position of emphasis in the sentence. It implies that this last group of witnesses had the best chance of condemning Jesus with their evidence, but even this evidence was inadequate.

Here are some other ways to translate this emphasis:

But even on this point (REB)

But even the things these people said (NCV)

Yet even then (NIV)

their testimony: The words their testimony refers to what they claimed Jesus had said about the temple in 14:58.

was inconsistent: See how you translated was inconsistent in 14:56b.

uW Translation Notes:

καὶ οὐδὲ οὕτως

(Some words not found in SR-GNT: Καί οὐδέ οὕτως ἴση ἦν ἡ μαρτυρία αὐτῶν)

Alternate translation: [Yet not even in this case]

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

ἡ μαρτυρία αὐτῶν

the testimony ˱of˲_them

See how you translated the word testimony in [14:55](../14/55.md). Alternate translation: [what they testified to]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

ἴση

same

Here, just as in [14:56](../14/56.md), Mark implies that, because what the people were testifying about was not the same, the Jewish leaders could use the testimony as evidence to convict Jesus. If it would be helpful in your language, you could make that idea more explicit. Alternate translation: [the same, and so they could not convict Jesus] or [the same, so it could not be used to accuse Jesus]

TSN Tyndale Study Notes:

14:53-65 The story of Jesus’ trial follows immediately upon his arrest. Objections have been raised as to the historicity of the various accounts of Jesus’ trial, because of differences of detail from the rules found in the Mishnah tractate Mishnah Sanhedrin. However, (1) the Mishnah was written around AD 200, whereas the Gospel of Mark was written in the late 60s, over 130 years earlier; (2) the rules found in Mishnah Sanhedrin idealize what later rabbis thought should take place in such trials and do not necessarily describe what did in fact take place; (3) it is questionable whether the Sadducees leading the Sanhedrin would have followed the Pharisaic rules found in Mishnah Sanhedrin (see Acts 23:6-10); (4) the rules found in Mishnah Sanhedrin sometimes conflict with what the Jewish historian Josephus wrote; (5) existing laws of conduct were not necessarily followed—Jesus was being tried by a kangaroo court, in which the sentence was predetermined and only the charge for carrying it out was sought (Mark 14:55); (6) if we must choose between the trial accounts found in the Gospels and Mishnah Sanhedrin, there is no reason to choose the reliability of Mishnah Sanhedrin over that of the Gospels.

OET-LV English word order (‘Reverse’ interlinear)

Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.

Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the CNTR.

OET interlinear MARK 14:59

SR Greek word order (including unused variant words in grey)

Section 14:53–65: The Jewish leaders decided that Jesus should die

Paragraph 14:55–59

14:59

OET-LV English word order (‘Reverse’ interlinear)