The Blessed One Is Now Shamefully Entreated (Mr 14:65).
Every word here must be carefully observed, and the several accounts put together, that we may lose none of the awful indignities about to be described.
65. And some began to spit on him--or, as in
Mt 26:67,
"to spit in [into] His face." Luke
(Lu 22:63)
says in addition, "And the men that held Jesus mocked him"--or cast
their jeers at Him. (Also see on
Joh 18:28.)
to cover his face--or "to blindfold him" (as in
Lu 22:64).
to buffet him--Luke's word, which is rendered "smote Him"
(Lu 22:63),
is a stronger one, conveying an idea for which we have an exact
equivalent in English, but one too colloquial to be inserted here.
began to say unto him, Prophesy--In Matthew
(Mt 26:68)
this is given more fully: "Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, Who is he
that smote Thee?" The sarcastic fling at Him as "the Christ,"
and the demand of Him in this character to name the unseen perpetrator
of the blows inflicted on Him, was in them as infamous as to Him it
must have been, and was intended to be, stinging.
and the servants did strike him with the palms of their hands--or
"struck Him on the face"
(Lu 22:64).
Ah! Well did He say prophetically, in that Messianic prediction which
we have often referred to, "I 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!"
(Isa 50:6).
"And many other things blasphemously spake they against Him"
(Lu 22:65).
This general statement is important, as showing that virulent and
varied as were the recorded affronts put upon Him, they are but
a small specimen of what He endured on that dark occasion.
JFB.
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