Matthew 26:59
Douay-Rheims
And the chief priests and the whole council sought false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death:
Origen
This place teaches us to contemn the clamours of slanderers and false witnesses, and not to consider those who speak unbeseeming things of us worthy of an answer; but then, above all, when it is greater to be manfully and resolutely silent, than to plead our cause in vain.
Source details
A.D. 253 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 26:59-68
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.