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For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on:
Luke 18:32 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on.
  • BSB He will be delivered over to the Gentiles and will be mocked and insulted and spit upon.
  • NKJV For He will be delivered to the Gentiles and will be mocked and insulted and spit upon.
  • NASB For He will be handed over to the Gentiles, and will be ridiculed, and abused, and spit upon,
  • NLT He will be handed over to the Romans, and he will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit upon.

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Quick answer

The Son of Man will be handed to the Gentiles, mocked, shamefully treated, and spit upon. Jesus foretells his humiliation in detail.

Overview

Jesus predicts the specific abuses he will endure at the hands of the Gentile authorities. The handing over to Gentiles and the mockery fulfill prophetic patterns of the suffering servant. He goes to Jerusalem with full knowledge of the shame awaiting him, willingly embracing it for our salvation.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 22

  • Luke 23:11And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.
  • Isa 50:6I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
  • Isa 53:3He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
  • Mark 14:65And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him, Prophesy: and the servants did strike him with the palms of their hands.
  • Acts 3:13The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.
  • Isa 52:14As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
  • Mic 5:1Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
  • Matt 16:21From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.
  • Matt 26:67Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands,
  • Luke 23:35And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.
  • Mark 15:17–20And they clothed him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his head,
  • Luke 22:63–65And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote him.
  • Luke 23:1And the whole multitude of them arose, and led him unto Pilate.
  • Acts 2:23Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
  • John 18:35Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Thine own nation and the chief priests have delivered thee unto me: what hast thou done?
  • John 18:30They answered and said unto him, If he were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up unto thee.
  • Matt 27:2And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
  • Matt 27:28–30And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe.
  • John 19:1–5Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.
  • John 18:22And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so?
  • Mark 15:1And straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him to Pilate.
  • John 18:28Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.

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Christ at the center

Luke shows Jesus the Savior for all — outsiders, the poor, the nations — the one who, on the Emmaus road, opened all the Scriptures to show they were about himself.

How Luke 18:32 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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