Mark 14:61 Commentary and Bible Study

Christ however remained silent. He was under no obligation to give an answer, and no substantial charges had been brought against him which he needed to answer. The false charge of saying that he would destroy the temple did not deserve to be answered. He was waiting for a major question. He would go to Calvary on one charge only and he would ‘confess’ only to this. He would only be tried on one charge: the charge that he was the Messiah, which he was. So he waited and then the question came.Luke tells us that the new day had dawned by the time the high priest finally asked him the direct question: ‘Art thou the Christ? tell us’, or as Mark puts it, ‘Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?’ Are you the Christ? Are you divine? Are you the Son of God? Now he was ready to answer. They would be seen to proceed on the basis that he presented himself as the Messiah. When he went to Calvary, the inscription over him, the offence which they claimed he had committed, would be that he had presented himself as the Son of God.