Readings for Lent and Easter

^63-65 Then the men who held Jesus made a great game of knocking him about. And they blindfolded him and asked him, “Now prophet, guess who hit you that time!” And that was only the beginning of the way they insulted him.

In the early morning Jesus is formally interrogated

^66-67 Then when daylight came, the assembly of the elders of the people, which included both chief priests and scribes, met and marched him off to their own council. There they asked him, “If you really are Christ, tell us!”

^68-69 “If I tell you, you will never believe me, and if I ask you a question, you will not answer me. But from now on the Son of Man will take his seat at the right hand of almighty God.”

⁷⁰ Then they all said, “So you are the Son of God then?” “You are right; I am,” Jesus told them.

⁷¹ Then they said, “Why do we need to call any more witnesses, for we ourselves have heard this thing from his own lips?”