The high priest Caiaphas was incredibly shaken by the words that God spoke to him. To Caiaphas, God was a strange man claiming He was The I Am, The Anointed One. Then, Caiaphas ripped his garment. Once it was ripped, the law said to not sew it up – you’re done with it – there’s no going back. But, he was so overcome with what God said, that he would forever be changed. Caiaphas got a lot of things wrong, but when he was in the presence of The Great I Am, he shredded what had identified him up to that point.
Sermon Notes: Mark 14:55-63 And the chief priests and all the council sought for witness against Jesus to put him to death; and found none. For many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together. And there arose certain, and bare false witness against him, saying, We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands. But neither so did their witness agree together. And the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee? But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed? And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven. Then the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, What need we any further witnesses?
