Luke 22:67

If thou art the Christ, tell us, But he said unto them, If I tell you, ye will not believe; and if I ask you, ye will not answer. But from henceforth shall the Son of man be seated at the right hand of the power of God.

This ten-second summary of the three trials of Jesus which occupied the whole of a long night and a full-dress rehearsal after daylight does not give a hundredth of all that was said and done. There were many, many questions, and answers, and adjurations, and restatements, and recapitulations throughout the long trials Jesus endured at the hands of the chosen people. One of the gospel's giving a question or an answer in slightly different form from that in another gospel may not be intelligently advocated as a contradiction or discrepancy. All that is written in all of the gospels is totally and unequivocally true, there being no honest way to deny a word of it.

If thou art the Christ, tell us ... At one point during the trials the high priest phrased the question thus: "Art thou the Christ the Son of the Blessed?" And to this, Jesus replied, "I am, and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power and coming with the clouds of heaven" (Mark 14:61,62). Christ preferred to answer the question which permitted the imperial "I AM" reply, rather than the type mentioned here, to which he replied differently.

If I tell you, ye will not believe ... Jesus had indeed told them hundreds of times, but they would not believe.

If I ask you, ye will not answer ... There are a number of examples of this in the gospels. See Luke 14:6; 20:5; Matthew 22:46, etc. Those evil rulers were not able to answer Jesus' questions; they could not stand against him in open discussion; and, even in this trial, they refused to answer his arguments.

Henceforth ye shall see the Son of man seated at the right hand of the power of God ... This is an emphatic declaration from the lips of Jesus that he was indeed the divine Messiah, a supernatural person, in possession (ultimately) of the very power of God; and it must be pointed out that the Sanhedrin fully understood it as such, thus making them much more perceptive than those who blindly ignore the impact of this declaration.