Matthew Poole and continuators on Luke 22:71

71 And they said, What need we any further witness? for we our selves have heard of his own mouth.

Our blessed Lord before his Death passed two Trials or Examinations. The one before the Jewish Sanhedrim, whose proper Province it was to try such as were accused, as false Prophets, or Blasphemers. This was a kind of Ecclesiastical Court. The High Priest was the chief Iudge in it, and we are told that they used to sit in his Palace. The other was before Pilate the Roman Governour of Iudea at that time, he principally took cognisance of criminal things, such especially as concerned the peace of the Country, considered as a part of the Roman Empire. These verses give an account only of the former. Blasphemy was the crime they charged upon him. We cannot from any one Evangelist have a full account of either of them. In our Notes on Matthew 26. from v. 57. to 67. we have fully considered what all the Evangelists say. See the Notes on that place.