Matthew 26:67

They spit in Jesus's face and strike Him with fists and slaps. He endures shameful abuse from His captors.

Cross-references · 23

• Isa 50:6I offered My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who tore out My beard. I did not hide My face from scorn and spittle.
• Isa 53:3He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
• John 18:22When Jesus had said this, one of the officers standing nearby slapped Him in the face and said, “Is this how You answer the high priest?”
• Matt 27:30Then they spit on Him and took the staff and struck Him on the head repeatedly.
• Matt 5:39But I tell you not to resist an evil person. If someone slaps you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also;
• Mark 14:65Then some of them began to spit on Him. They blindfolded Him, struck Him with their fists, and said to Him, “Prophesy!” And the officers received Him with slaps in His face.
• Heb 12:2Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
• Isa 52:14Just as many were appalled at Him—His appearance was disfigured beyond that of any man, and His form was marred beyond human likeness—
• Lam 3:30Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach.
• Mark 15:19They kept striking His head with a staff and spitting on Him. And they knelt down and bowed before Him.
• John 19:3And they went up to Him again and again, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and slapping Him in the face.
• Mark 10:34who will mock Him and spit on Him and flog Him and kill Him. And after three days He will rise again.”
• 2 Cor 11:20–21In fact, you even put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or exalts himself or strikes you in the face.
• Lam 3:45You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.
• 1 Kgs 22:24Then Zedekiah son of Chenaanah went up, struck Micaiah in the face, and demanded, “Which way did the Spirit of the LORD go when He departed from me to speak with you?”
• Num 12:14But the LORD answered Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Let her be confined outside the camp for seven days; after that she may be brought back in.”
• Job 30:9–11And now they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.
• Deut 25:9his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal, spit in his face, and declare, “This is what is done to the man who will not maintain his brother’s line.”
• Mic 5:1Now, O daughter of troops, mobilize your troops; for a siege is laid against us! With a rod they will strike the cheek of the judge of Israel.
• 1 Cor 4:13when we are slandered, we answer gently. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world.
• Jer 20:2he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.
• Luke 22:63–65The men who were holding Jesus began to mock Him and beat Him.
• Acts 23:2–3At this, the high priest Ananias ordered those standing near Paul to strike him on the mouth.

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