Mark 14:64

Ye have heard the blasphemy, and what think ye? And they all condemned him to be worthy of death.

Through his illegal and violent behavior in rending his garments, the sacred garments of the high priest, he had already announced the court's decision; and what he called for here was an assent to his self-proposed verdict. The conduct of Caiaphas in this scene dramatizes the claim of Christ as being equal to God. Skeptics who deny that Christ made such a claim are left without any explanation at all of what this unbelieving high priest did on that occasion.

What think ye ... There is no way that Cranfield's unsupported opinion that "they were not pronouncing a sentence but rather giving a legal opinion"[7] can be correct. Instead of putting the matter to secret ballot, required by every capital case, Caiaphas here was procuring a death sentence against the Lord of Life by acclamation. The words have the equivalent meaning of "All in favor say Aye!"

This was the official condemnation by the chosen people of their Lord and Messiah, and the most phenomenal results would immediately flow out of it. Before the day was ended, they would renounce God himself as their king, long the vaunted glory of Israel, and shout, "We have no king but Caesar" (John 19:15). That this was indeed an official condemnation is inherent in their immediate march upon Pilate with a demand for his crucifixion, in whose presence it was finally resolved that the only grounds they had for demanding Jesus' death was that "he made himself the Son of God" (John 19:7).