Reading for January 22nd

Read Mark 14.53-65 Indictment of Caiaphas.
The trial contains numerous legal irregularities (at night, on a holiday,
without legitimate witnesses, etc.).
In verses 56-59 the false witnesses ironically predict the truth of the Temple's
destruction and Jesus' resurrection.
In verses 61-62 Jesus attests unequivocally to his identity as the divine Son.
His citation combines Dan 7.13 and Ps 110.1.
In verse 63 tearing clothes signals grief and mourning, and it may anticipate the tearing
of the Temple curtain (15.38).
With torn clothes and curtain, the priest cannot officiate in the Temple.
In verse 64 all condemn Jesus, but Joseph of Arimathea, a member of the Sanhedrin,
will beg Pilate for Jesus' body and entomb it (15.42-46).
The verse continues the irregularities: Jesus has not clearly blasphemed;
the penalty for blasphemy is stoning.
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