Matthew 26:62-63: And the high priest arose and said to Him, Do You answer nothing? What is it these men testify against You? But Jesus kept silent. And the high priest answered and said to Him, I put You under oath by the living God: Tell us if You are the Christ, the Son of God!
Although the High Priest, Caiaphas apparently did not understand Isaiah 53, which speaks of the Messiah coming as a lamb before His shearers is dumb--so He opened not His mouth. How difficult it must have been to listen to the lies of the witnesses, and the pompous arrogance of the high priest, who was in the business for the vast amount of money that he could glean. Jesus could have condemned Him at this point with great justification. But the time for preaching had passed, and now the sacrifice for which He had been born was to be made.
Since the case was weak and no real capital crime had been committed, Caiaphas had to coax some sort of confession out of Jesus in which He would claim to be God in the flesh. Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons must hate this passage as Caiaphas gives full verification thta the message of Christ had been all along that He was the Christ, the Son of God.
Caiahphas was trying to break Jesus' silence , and so proposed an oath that would make Him legally obligated to speak. No witness could send Jesus to the Cross, it would have to be His own words.
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