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For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on.
Luke 18:32 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted 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 23:11Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.
  • Isa 50:6I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.
  • Isa 53:3He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.
  • Mark 14:65Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with fists, and to tell him, “Prophesy!” The officers struck him with the palms of their hands.
  • Acts 3:13The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.
  • Isa 52:14Just as many were astonished at you (his appearance was marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men),
  • Mic 5:1Now you shall gather yourself in troops, daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us. They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.
  • Matt 16:21From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.
  • Matt 26:67Then they spit in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,
  • Luke 23:35The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!”
  • Mark 15:17–20They clothed him with purple, and weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on him.
  • Luke 22:63–65The men who held Jesus mocked him and beat him.
  • Luke 23:1The whole company of them rose up and brought him before Pilate.
  • Acts 2:23him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;
  • John 18:35Pilate answered, “I’m not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered you to me. What have you done?”
  • John 18:30They answered him, “If this man weren’t an evildoer, we wouldn’t have delivered him up to you.”
  • Matt 27:2and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.
  • Matt 27:28–30They stripped him, and put a scarlet robe on him.
  • John 19:1–5So Pilate then took Jesus, and flogged him.
  • John 18:22When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, “Do you answer the high priest like that?”
  • Mark 15:1Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.
  • John 18:28They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but 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.

Original language

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