Mark 14:54-59
14:54 And Peter had followed him from a distance, up to the high priest’s courtyard. He 1 was sitting with the guards 2 and warming himself by the fire.
14:55 The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for evidence against Jesus so that they could put him to death, but they did not find anything.
14:56 Many gave false testimony against him, but their testimony did not agree.
14:57 Some stood up and gave this false testimony against him: 3
14:58 “We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple made with hands and in three days build another not made with hands.’”
14:59 Yet even on this point their testimony did not agree.
1 tn Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
2 sn The guards would have been the guards of the chief priests who had accompanied Judas to arrest Jesus.
3 tn Grk “Some standing up gave false testimony against him, saying.”