63And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote him.
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And 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?
Now 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.
They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 63-71)We are here told, as before in the other gospels, I. How our Lord Jesus was abused by the servants of the high priest. The abjects , the rude and barbarous servants, gathered themselves together against him . They that held Jesus , that had him in custody till the court sat, they mocked him , and smote him (Luke 22:63), they would not allow him to repose himself one minute, though he had had no sl…
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