²² When he had said this, one of the police standing nearby struck Jesus on the face, saying, “Is that how you answer the high priest?”^(A)

² Then the high priest Ananias ordered those standing near him to strike him on the mouth.^{(A) 3} At this Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! Are you sitting there to judge me according to the law, and yet in violation of the law you order me to be struck?”^{(B) 4} Those standing nearby said, “Do you dare to insult God’s high priest?” ⁵ And Paul said, “I did not realize, brothers, that he was high priest, for it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil of a leader of your people.’ ”^(C)

³ They kept coming up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and striking him on the face.^(A)

³ So Judas brought a detachment of soldiers together with police from the chief priests and the Pharisees, and they came there with lanterns and torches and weapons.^(A)

The Mocking and Beating of Jesus

⁶³ Now the men who were holding Jesus^[a] began to mock him and beat him;^{(A) 64} they also blindfolded him and kept asking him, “Prophesy! Who is it who struck you?”

⁶⁵ Some began to spit on him, to blindfold him, and to strike him, saying to him, “Prophesy!” The guards also took him and beat him.^(A)

⁶⁷ Then they spat in his face and struck him, and some slapped him,^{(A) 68} saying, “Prophesy to us, you Messiah!^[a] Who is it that struck you?”

² Then Pashhur struck the prophet Jeremiah and put him in the stocks that were in the upper Benjamin Gate of the house of the Lord.^(A)