When day came, the assembly of the elders of the people gathered together, both chief priests and scribes. And they led him away to their council, and they said,
We are here told, as before in the other gospels, I. How our Lord Jesus was abused by the servants of the high priest. The abjects, the rude and barbarous servants, gathered themselves together against him. They that held Jesus, that had him in custody till the court sat, they mocked him, and smote him (Luk 22:63), they would not allow him to repose himself...
Commenting on Luke 22:63-71
Hereafter shall the son of man,.... Meaning himself, who was truly man, and then in a low and mean form, and thought by the Jews to be a mere man; though this character was known by them to belong to the Messiah, especially what follows; as that he should sit on the right hand of the power of God: as he did after his resurrection...
Verse 66. (n) "And as soon as it was day"