Mark 14:61
Mark 14:6161But Jesus remained silent and made no reply. Again the high priest questioned Him, “Are You the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?”
The Watchtower reads "the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One" as Messianic language only — Christ is the Messiah, and "Son of God" in JW theology means a created being closely related to God, not God himself. Jesus's affirmative answer in v. 62 is treated as a Messianic claim, not a deity claim. The high priest's reaction in v. 63 (tearing his robes) is read as political theatre rather than as evidence that Jesus had blasphemed.
The high priest is asking under oath. Jesus's answer in the next verse combines ("the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven") with ("sitting at the right hand of Power") — two passages that together attribute to the Son of Man universal eternal dominion and the seat of co-regency with Jehovah. Caiaphas understood. He tore his robes — forbidden for the high priest under except in response to extreme blasphemy — and called for Jesus's death. Under Second Temple Judaism, Messianic claims alone were not capital blasphemy (Bar Kokhba was a failed Messiah, not a blasphemer). What got Jesus killed was the divine identity claim. The hostile witnesses understood the trial better than the Watchtower does. Pair with , , and to see the full freight of what Jesus claimed and what Caiaphas heard.