MARK 14:65 — KING JAMES VERSION 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.
Church Fathers on Mark 14:65
The more Jesus remained silent before the false witnesses who were unworthy of His answer, and the impious priests, the more the High Priest, overcome with anger, endeavoured to provoke Him to answer, that he might find room for accusing Him, from any thing whatever which He might say.
But our God and Saviour Himself, Who brought salvation to the world, and assisted mankind by His love, is led as a sheep to the slaughter, without crying, and remained mute and 'kept silence yea even from good words.'
But He remained silent because He knew that they would not attend to His words, wherefore He answered according to Luke, 'If I tell you, ye will not believe.' [Luke 22:67]
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