Matthew 26:63–65

God of all said somewhere through Moses: “If a soul sins and hears a voice of adjuration, and he is a witness or has seen or known, if he does not report it, he will receive the sin.” So a charge of lawlessness was written against people if they answered nothing when they heard an adjuring voice. That is why Caiaphas craftily adjures the Lord: so that if he still wished to be silent after this, Caiaphas might condemn him as a transgressor — knowing that one adjured who stays silent becomes liable to the law’s penalty — but if he spoke the truth, they might kill him as a false christ for calling himself God while, in the flesh and what is seen, having nothing more than other humans. That is why Christ said, “You have said it” — instead of “your own mouth has now confessed it.”

And so that he might make the judgment against them heavier — I mean the judgment on their unwillingness to believe in him — he again sets his glory plainly before them, saying, “From now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the power of God.” “Me, who have become in the form that is yours, the Son by nature and truly of God the Father, you have made of no account; and since you have sunk to such ignorance that you do not know his mystery and mine, though you are learned in the law, I necessarily say this: that only a short and bounded time was given you for impiety against me, as far as the precious cross; for after this I will at once run back into my own honor, ascend to the glory that was in the beginning, and sit with God the Father even with the flesh.” While Christ said this, Caiaphas tore his garments, saying, “He has blasphemed.” He did this to make the accusation fiercer and to raise what was said by the act. And yet what blasphemy was this? This especially both shone and conquered by force.