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And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote him.
Luke 22:63 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB The men who held Jesus mocked him and beat him.
  • BSB The men who were holding Jesus began to mock Him and beat Him.
  • NKJV Now the men who held Jesus mocked Him and beat Him.
  • NASB The men who were holding Jesus in custody began mocking Him and beating Him,
  • NLT The guards in charge of Jesus began mocking and beating him.

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Quick answer

The men holding Jesus mock and beat Him. He endures shameful abuse from His captors.

Overview

While awaiting trial, Jesus suffers mockery and physical violence at the hands of His guards. He bears the cruelty silently, fulfilling the picture of the suffering Servant who is despised. His patient endurance of injustice is part of the suffering by which He redeems His people.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 21

  • 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?
  • Isa 49:7Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.
  • Job 30:9–14And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
  • 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 15:16–20And the soldiers led him away into the hall, called Praetorium; and they call together the whole band.
  • Isa 50:6–7I 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.
  • Mark 15:27–32And with him they crucify two thieves; the one on his right hand, and the other on his left.
  • Ps 35:25Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
  • 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:
  • Ps 35:15–16But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
  • Job 16:9–10He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
  • Matt 27:39–44And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,
  • 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.
  • Ps 22:13They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
  • 1 Pet 2:23Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
  • Matt 27:28–31And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe.
  • Ps 22:6–7But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
  • Mark 14:55–65And the chief priests and all the council sought for witness against Jesus to put him to death; and found none.
  • Heb 12:2Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
  • Matt 26:59–68Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
  • Ps 69:7–12Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

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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 22:63 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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