Mark 14:57-59

The first part of the trial: V. 57. And there arose certain, and bare false witness against Him, saying, V. 58.We heard Him say, I will destroy this Temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands. V. 59. But neither so did their witness agree together.

From the beginning the trial was a blasphemous farce. For not only the high priests, but the entire Sanhedrin deliberately set about to find testimony against Christ in order that they might with some show of right condemn Him to die. But the record of Jesus had been so clean that not the slightest hint of real evidence against Him could be found, John 8, 46. It was an exasperating situation. No matter how many witnesses were announced and even previously instructed, their testimony was not the same, it did not agree.

Finally two men were found that garbled the story of John 2, 19-21, declaring that Jesus had referred to the Temple built by Herod, the sanctuary of the Jews. And still their testimony was not the same; they did not agree on points that were essential to make their witness valid. The whole trial seemed doomed to hopeless disintegration.