Luke 22:70

Ye say that I am A Hebrew formula (antt" amarta)."Your words verify themselves." See some striking remarks in De Quincey, Works, in. 304. But the formula like "Thou sayest" in John 18:37 seems also to have been meant to waive further discussion. See p. 385.

What need we any further witness?] Caiaphas had made the same appeal to the audience at the night trial. Van Oosterzee mentions that at the trial of the Reformer Farel, the Genevan Priests addressed him in these very words, and he replied, "Speak the words of God, and not those of Caiaphas." This trial was followed by the secondderision, in which it almost seems as if the Sanhedrists themselves took part. Matthew 26:67. St Luke here omits the remorse and horrible end of Judas, on which he touches in Acts 1:18.