³⁴ they will mock him and spit upon him and flog him and kill him, and after three days he will rise again.”^(A)

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)

Jesus Foretells His Death and Resurrection

²¹ From that time on, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and undergo great suffering at the hands of the elders and chief priests and scribes and be killed and on the third day be raised.^(A)

⁴ and that he was buried and that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures^(A)

¹⁰ and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first and then the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk. But you have kept the good wine until now.”

¹⁷ The law indeed was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.^(A)

³⁵ And the people stood by watching, but the leaders scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others; let him save himself if he is the Messiah^[a] of God, his chosen one!”^{(A) 36} The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine^{(B) 37} and saying, “If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!” ³⁸ There was also an inscription over him,^[b] “This is the King of the Jews.”

³⁹ One of the criminals who were hanged there kept deriding^[c] him and saying, “Are you not the Messiah?^[d] Save yourself and us!”^(C)

¹¹ Even Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him; then he put an elegant robe on him and sent him back to Pilate.^(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 They kept heaping many other insults on him.