Mark 14:65

Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with fists, and to tell him, “Prophesy!” The officers struck him with the palms of their hands.

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WEBBE

Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with fists, and to tell him, “Prophesy!” The officers struck him with the palms of their hands.

BSB

Then some of them began to spit on Him. They blindfolded Him, struck Him with their fists, and said to Him, “Prophesy!” And the officers received Him with slaps in His face.

KJV

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.

ASV

And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him, Prophesy: and the officers received him with blows of their hands.

BBE

And some put shame on him and, covering his face, gave him blows and said to him, Now say what is to come: and the captains took him and gave him blows with their hands.

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καὶ kai And G2532 ἤρξαντό ērxanto began G757 τινες tines some G5100 ἐμπτύειν emptuein to spit G1716 αὐτῷ autō upon Him G846 καὶ kai and G2532 περικαλύπτειν perikaluptein to cover up G4028 αὐτοῦ autou of Him G846 τὸ to the G3588 πρόσωπον prosōpon face G4383 καὶ kai and G2532 κολαφίζειν kolaphizein to strike G2852 αὐτὸν auton Him G846 καὶ kai and G2532 λέγειν legein to say G3004 αὐτῷ autō to Him G846 προφήτευσον prophēteuson do prophesy G4395 καὶ kai And G2532 οἱ hoi the G3588 ὑπηρέται hupēretai officers G5257 ῥαπίσμασιν rhapismasin with the palms G4475 αὐτὸν auton Him G846 ἔλαβον.¶ elabon received G2983

The early church

(ubi sup.) We must understand by this, that the Lord suffered these things till morning, in the house of the High Priest, whither He had first been brought.
Augustine of Hippo · d. 430Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
(ubi sup.) By saying, Prophesy, who is he that smote thee, they mean to insult Him, because He wished to be looked upon as a prophet by the people.
Bede · d. 735Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
The Jewish priesthood was to be rent from the time that they condemned Christ as guilty of death; wherefore there follows, And they all condemned him to be guilty of death.
Theophylact of Ohrid · d. 1107Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
They condemned Him to be guilty of death, that by His guiltiness He might absolve our guilt. It goes on: 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; that is, that by being spit upon He might wash the face of our soul, and by the covering of His face, might take away the veil from our hearts, and by the buffets, which were dealt upon His head, might heal the head of mankind, that is, Adam, and by the blows, by which He was smitten with the hands, His great praise might be testified by the clapping of our hands and by our lips, as it is said, O clap your hands together, all ye people. (Ps. 47:1)
Pseudo-Jerome · d. 9999Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 53–65

We have here Christ's condemnation before the great council of the Jews. Peter followed; but the high priest's fire-side was no proper place, nor his servants proper company, for Peter: it was an entrance into temptation. Great diligence was used to procure false witnesses against Jesus, yet their testimony was not equal to the charge of a capital crime, by the utmost stretch of their law. He was asked, Art thou the Son of the Blessed? that is, the Son of God. For the proof of his being the Son of God, he refers to his second coming. In these outrages we have proofs of man's enmity to God, and of God's free and unspeakable love to man.

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