Readings for Lent and Easter

Jesus is Insulted and Beaten^(A)

⁶³ Then the men who were holding Jesus in custody began to make fun of him while they beat him. ⁶⁴ They blindfolded him and asked him over and over again, “Prophesy! Who is the one who hit you?” ⁶⁵ And they kept insulting^[a] him in many other ways.

⁶⁶ As soon as day came, the elders of the people, the high priests, and the scribes assembled and brought him before their Council.^{[b] 67} They said, “If you are the Messiah,^[c] tell us.”

But he told them, “If I tell you, you won’t believe me, ⁶⁸ and if I ask you a question, you won’t answer me. ⁶⁹ But from now on the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the mighty God.”^[d]

⁷⁰ Then they all asked, “Are you, then, the Son of God?”

He answered them, “You said it—I AM.”

⁷¹ “Why do we need any more testimony?” they asked. “We have heard it ourselves from his own mouth!”