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The men who were holding Jesus in custody began mocking Him and beating Him,
Luke 22:63 · New American Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB The men who held Jesus mocked him and beat him.
  • KJV And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote 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.
  • 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 18:22When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, “Do you answer the high priest like that?”
  • Isa 49:7Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up; princes, and they shall worship; because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
  • Job 30:9–14“Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.
  • 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 15:16–20The soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium; and they called together the whole cohort.
  • Isa 50:6–7I 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.
  • Mark 15:27–32With him they crucified two robbers; one on his right hand, and one on his left.
  • Ps 35:25Don’t let them say in their heart, “Aha! That’s the way we want it!” Don’t let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”
  • 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),
  • Ps 35:15–16But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease.
  • Job 16:9–10He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.
  • Matt 27:39–44Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,
  • 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.
  • Ps 22:13They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.
  • 1 Pet 2:23Who, when he was cursed, didn’t curse back. When he suffered, didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;
  • Matt 27:28–31They stripped him, and put a scarlet robe on him.
  • Ps 22:6–7But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.
  • Mark 14:55–65Now the chief priests and the whole council sought witnesses against Jesus to put him to death, and found none.
  • Heb 12:2looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
  • Matt 26:59–68Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;
  • Ps 69:7–12Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has 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.

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