MARK 14:65 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him, Prophesy: and the servants did strike him with the palms of their hands.”
Then some began to spit at him; they blindfolded him, struck him with their fists, and said, prophesy! And the guards took him and beat him — the mocking of Jesus in the Sanhedrin is the fulfillment of the third passion prediction: they will mock him (10:34). Spit at him, struck with fists, prophesy: the abuse is simultaneously physical and mockery of Jesus' prophetic claim. The blindfold and the prophesy command are the ironic combination — they are asking the one who has just fulfilled the prophecy about the Son of Man's coming to prove his prophetic ability.
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