Matthew 26:67

Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him: and others struck his face with the palms of their hands,

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands,

In Context

66What think you? But they answering, said: He is guilty of death.

68Saying: Prophesy unto us, O Christ, who is he that struck thee?

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 25:9The woman shall come to him before the ancients, and shall take off his shoe from his foot, and spit in his face, and say: So shall it be done to the man that will not build up his brother's house:

Job 30:9Now I am turned into their song, and am become their byword.

Isaiah 50:6I have given my body to the strikers, and my cheeks to them that plucked them: I have not turned away my face from them that rebuked me, and spit upon me.

Isaiah 53:3Despised, and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with infirmity: and his look was as it were hidden and despised, whereupon we esteemed him not.

Lamentations 3:30Jod. He shall give his cheek to him that striketh him, he shall be filled with reproaches.

Micah 5:1Now shalt thou be laid waste, O daughter of the robber: they have laid siege against us, with a rod shall they strike the cheek of the judge of Israel.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 26:58-69

Christ in the High Priest's Palace. 57 And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled. 58 But Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest's palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end. 59 Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death; 60 But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false… Read the whole commentary →

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