Luke 22:63 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

Now the men who were holding Jesus [in custody] began mocking Him and beating Him.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Now the men who had Jesus in custody treated Him with contempt and scoffed at and ridiculed Him and beat Him;

American Standard Version (1901)

And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and beat him.

Common English Bible

The men who were holding Jesus in custody taunted him while they beat him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And the men who were holding him ridiculed him and beat him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And the men that held him, mocked him, and struck him.

Luke 22:63 Cross References

Luke 22:62

Then Peter went out and cried bitterly.

John 18:19

Meanwhile, the head priest asked Jesus about His disciples and His teaching. [Note: This was probably Annas, the former “head priest” who later sent Jesus to the current head priest, Caiaphas. See verse 24].

John 18:22

When Jesus said this, one of the guards standing there struck Him [in the face], saying, “Is that any way to talk to the head priest?”

Hebrews 12:2

We should fix our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and completer of the [or, “our”] faith. [Note: Jesus is here pictured as the one who completely fulfills the life of faith, or who provides us with the ability to live such a life]. [And] because He could look forward to joy, He endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right side of God’s throne.

1 Peter 2:23

When He was spoken to with harsh insults, He did not reply in the same way. When He was made to suffer, He did not threaten [His tormentors], but instead entrusted Himself to God, [whom He knew] would make a righteous judgment [in the matter].