October 13, 2025 - Mark 14:61 - "Son of the Blessed"

Mark 14:61

"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?"

In the hour of our LORD’s deepest humiliation, when cruel mockings surrounded Him and false witnesses rose against Him, He stood in silence. He held His peace. As Isaiah wrote, “He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He openeth not His mouth” (Isaiah 53:7). Yet when the high priest asked, “Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?”—He did not deny it. He said, “I am” (Mark 14:62).

In that simple confession, the veil is lifted on the glorious identity of our Redeemer. He is not merely a prophet or a man of God, but the Christ—the Anointed One—God’s appointed Savior. He is the Son of the Blessed, one with the Father, co-eternal and co-equal. The fullness of the Godhead dwelt in Him bodily (Colossians 2:9). The high priest meant his words as an accusation, but God purposed them for the revelation of His Person. From the mouth of unbelief came the very testimony of God the Father concerning His Son.

As the Christ, He is God’s divinely appointed Mediator, sent to earn and establish righteousness on behalf of a people who could not do it for themselves. Before the foundation of the world, the Father chose sinners from every tribe, nation and tongue in Him, “that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will” (Ephesians 1:4-5). Christ did not come seeking votes or approval; He came as the approved and appointed Savior by eternal decree. “Thou shalt call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins” (Matthew 1:21).

He did not come to try to save but to save—to accomplish redemption, by satisfying God’s law and justice in His life, and then laying down His life to pay the penalty for their sin. Daniel 9:24 declares that He “brought in everlasting righteousness.” The blood of bulls and goats could not redeem; God’s decree alone could not justify until the righteousness was earned and brought in. The LORD Jesus Christ, the Son of the Blessed, did this—He brought in that everlasting righteousness by His obedience unto death, (Philippians 2:8).

The high priest’s question contained two truths: “Art thou the Christ?”—Yes, the Anointed One foretold in all the Scriptures; and “Art thou the Son of the Blessed?”—Yes, the eternal Son of God. “My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill Him… because He said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God” (John 5:17,18). To be the Son of the Blessed is to be one with the Father in divine essence. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1). He is the express image of His person (Hebrews 1:3). Whoever has seen the Son has seen the Father.

This is the bedrock of our hope: that the One Who laid down His life for His sheep is God manifest in the flesh. “Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh” (1 Timothy 3:16). He laid down His life not as a victim of men, but in willing obedience to His Father’s will. “No man taketh it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again” (John 10:18). His silence before His accusers was submission, not weakness. The Lamb of God was led to the slaughter, fulfilling God's covenant of redemption (John 17:1-5). And now, risen and exalted, “He ever liveth to make intercession for them” (Hebrews 7:25). All that the Father gave Him shall come to Him, and He will lose none (John 6:37-39). This is our confession with Peter: “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God” (Matthew 16:16). Flesh and blood did not reveal this, but the Father Who is in heaven. Upon this Rock—the truth of Who Christ is—He builds His church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Every time we open the Scriptures, the question still echoes: “Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?” And still He answers, “I am.” This is the LORD Jesus Christ of the Scriptures—the Son of the Blessed, Who obtained eternal redemption for His people by His shed blood unto death. This is the Faith that rests in Him alone, rejoicing that “he that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life” (John 3:36).

Jesus Christ, the Son of the Blessed—our appointed Savior, our everlasting righteousness, our Emmanuel—God with us.