64And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face, and asked him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that smote thee?
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And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars.
But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
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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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