Mar 14:54 | KingComments | STEP | With devilish joy the religious leadership gathers under the presidency of the high priest. The Lord Jesus is led away to him. This is the moment they looked forward to with intense longing. They have their great adversary in their power, they believe. The Lord here undergoes the first interrogation of the four to which He is subjected in this one night. After this interrogation He comes before Pilate ( ), then before Herod ( ) and finally again before Pilate ( ). Peter ventures to follow the Lord even further on the way He must go than the young man who also wanted to, but who was seized and fled in defamation. Peter will have an even more ignominious fall than the young man. In Peter has fought the enemies of the Lord, now he identifies himself with them. He warms himself with them at the fire, while the Lord exposes Himself to the hatred of cold hearts in the cold of the night.

‏ Mark 14:54

To the High Priest

With devilish joy the religious leadership gathers under the presidency of the high priest. The Lord Jesus is led away to him. This is the moment they looked forward to with intense longing. They have their great adversary in their power, they believe.

The Lord here undergoes the first interrogation of the four to which He is subjected in this one night. After this interrogation He comes before Pilate (Mk 15:2-5), then before Herod (Lk 23:6-12) and finally again before Pilate (Mk 15:6-15).

Peter ventures to follow the Lord even further on the way He must go than the young man who also wanted to, but who was seized and fled in defamation. Peter will have an even more ignominious fall than the young man. In Mk 14:47 Peter has fought the enemies of the Lord, now he identifies himself with them. He warms himself with them at the fire, while the Lord exposes Himself to the hatred of cold hearts in the cold of the night.