15 But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered;
    they gathered together against me;
(A)wretches whom I did not know
    tore at me without ceasing;

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65 (A)And some began (B)to spit on him and (C)to cover his face and to strike him, saying to him, “Prophesy!” And the guards received him (D)with blows.

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lest like (A)a lion they tear my soul apart,
    rending it in pieces, with (B)none to deliver.

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(A)But the Jews[a] (B)were jealous, and taking (C)some wicked men of the rabble, they formed a mob, set the city in an uproar, and attacked the house of Jason, seeking to bring them out to the crowd.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 17:5 Greek Ioudaioi probably refers here to Jewish religious leaders, and others under their influence, in that time; also verse 13

39 And (A)those who passed by (B)derided him, (C)wagging their heads 40 and saying, (D)“You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! (E)If you are (F)the Son of God, come down from the cross.” 41 So also the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, mocked him, saying, 42 (G)“He saved others; (H)he cannot save himself. (I)He is the King of Israel; let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him. 43 (J)He trusts in God; let God deliver him now, if he desires him. For he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’” 44 (K)And the robbers who were crucified with him also reviled him in the same way.

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Jesus Is Mocked

27 (A)Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the (B)governor's headquarters,[a] and they gathered the whole (C)battalion[b] before him. 28 And they stripped him and put (D)a scarlet robe on him, 29 and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on his head and put a reed in his right hand. And kneeling before him, they (E)mocked him, saying, “Hail, (F)King of the Jews!” 30 And (G)they spit on him and took the reed and struck him on the head.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 27:27 Greek the praetorium
  2. Matthew 27:27 Greek cohort; a tenth of a Roman legion, usually about 600 men

10 (A)For I hear many whispering.
    (B)Terror is on every side!
“Denounce him! (C)Let us denounce him!”
    say all my (D)close friends,
    (E)watching for (F)my fall.
“Perhaps he will be deceived;
    then (G)we can overcome him
    and take our revenge on him.”

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17 (A)Do not rejoice when your enemy falls,
    and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles,
18 lest the Lord see it and be displeased,
    and turn away his anger from him.

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Whoever mocks the poor (A)insults his Maker;
    he who is (B)glad at calamity will not go (C)unpunished.

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10 For my enemies speak concerning me;
    those who (A)watch for my life (B)consult together
11 and say, “God has forsaken him;
    pursue and seize him,
    for there is none to deliver him.”

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12 I am the talk of those who (A)sit in the gate,
    and the drunkards make (B)songs about me.

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My soul is in the midst of (A)lions;
    I lie down amid fiery beasts—
the children of man, whose (B)teeth are spears and arrows,
    whose (C)tongues are sharp swords.

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They say, “A deadly thing is poured out[a] on him;
    he will not rise again from where he lies.”

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 41:8 Or has fastened

17 For I am (A)ready to fall,
    and my pain is ever before me.

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25 Let them not say in their hearts,
    (A)“Aha, our heart's desire!”
Let them not say, (B)“We have swallowed him up.”

26 Let them be (C)put to shame and disappointed altogether
    who rejoice at my calamity!
Let them be (D)clothed with shame and dishonor
    who (E)magnify themselves against me!

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Let (A)destruction come upon him (B)when he does not know it!
And let the net that he hid ensnare him;
    let him fall into it—to his destruction!

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16 For (A)dogs encompass me;
    a company of evildoers (B)encircles me;
they have (C)pierced my hands and feet[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 22:16 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts like a lion [they are at] my hands and feet

29 “If I have (A)rejoiced at the ruin of him who hated me,
    or exulted when evil overtook him

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30 “But now they (A)laugh at me,
    men who are (B)younger than I,
whose fathers I would have disdained
    to set with the dogs of my flock.
What could I gain from the strength of their hands,
    (C)men whose (D)vigor is gone?
Through want and hard hunger
    they (E)gnaw (F)the dry ground by night in (G)waste and desolation;
they pick saltwort and the leaves of bushes,
    and the roots of the broom tree for their food.[a]
(H)They are driven out from human company;
    they shout after them as after a thief.
In the gullies of the torrents they must dwell,
    in holes of the earth and of (I)the rocks.
Among the bushes they (J)bray;
    under (K)the nettles they huddle together.
A senseless, a nameless brood,
    they have been whipped out of the land.

“And now I have become their (L)song;
    I am (M)a byword to them.
10 They (N)abhor me; they keep aloof from me;
    they do not hesitate to (O)spit at the sight of me.
11 Because God has loosed my cord and humbled me,
    they have cast off restraint[b] in my presence.
12 On my (P)right hand the rabble rise;
    they push away my feet;
    they (Q)cast up against me their ways of destruction.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 30:4 Or warmth
  2. Job 30:11 Hebrew the bridle

He has (A)torn me in his wrath (B)and hated me;
    he has (C)gnashed his teeth at me;
    my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.

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