Matthew 26:67
Then dyd they spyt in his face, and buffeted hym with fistes. And other smote hym on his face with the paulme of their handes,
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
In Context
66What thynke ye? They aunswered and sayde: he is worthy to dye.
68Saying: prophecie vnto vs, O Christ, who is he that smote thee?
Cross References
Isaiah 50:6But I offred my backe vnto the smiters, and my cheekes to the nippers: I turned not my face from shame and spittinges.
Isaiah 53:3He is dispised and abhorred of men, he is such a man as hath good experience of sorowes and infirmities: We haue reckened hym so vile, that we hyd our faces from hym.
Lamentations 3:30He offreth his cheeke to the smyter, he wyll be content with reproffes:
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 →