Matthew 26:68

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
and said, “Prophesy to us, Messiah! Who was it that hit you?”

King James Version (1611)
Saying, Prophecie vnto vs, thou Christ, who is he that smote thee? Now Peter sate without in the palace: and a damosell came vnto him, saying, Thou also wast with Iesus of Galilee. But hee denied before them all, saying, I know not what thou saiest. And when he was gone out into the porch, another maide saw him, and saide vnto them that were there, This fellow was also with Iesus of Nazareth. Then beganne hee to curse and to sweare, saying, I know not the man. And immediatly the cocke crew. And Peter remembred the words of Iesus, which said vnto him, Before the cocke crow, thou shalt denie mee thrice. And hee went out, and wept bitterly. And againe hee denied with an oath, I doe not know the man. And after a while came vnto him they that stood by, and saide to Peter, Surely thou also art one of them, for thy speech bewrayeth thee.

King James Version
Saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, Who is he that smote thee?

English Standard Version
saying, "Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who is it that struck you?"

New American Standard Bible
and said, "Prophesy to us, You Christ; who is the one who hit You?"

New Century Version
They said, "Prove to us that you are a prophet, you Christ! Tell us who hit you!"

Amplified Bible
saying, "Prophesy to us, You Christ (Messiah, Anointed); who was it that struck You?"

New American Standard Bible (1995)
and said, "Prophesy to us, You Christ; who is the one who hit You?"

Legacy Standard Bible
and said, "Prophesy to us, O Christ; who is the one who hit You?"

Berean Standard Bible
and said, "Prophesy to us, Christ! Who hit You?"

Contemporary English Version
and said, "You think you are the Messiah! So tell us who hit you!"

Complete Jewish Bible
said, "Now, you ‘Messiah,' ‘prophesy' to us: who hit you that time?"

Darby Translation
saying, Prophesy to us, Christ, Who is it who struck thee?

Easy-to-Read Version
They said, "Show us that you are a prophet, Messiah! Tell us who hit you!"

Geneva Bible (1587)
Saying, Prophecie to vs, O Christ, Who is he that smote thee?

George Lamsa Translation
Saying, O Christ, prophesy to us; who smote you?

Good News Translation
said, "Prophesy for us, Messiah! Guess who hit you!"

Lexham English Bible
saying, "Prophesy for us, you Christ! Who is it who hit you?"

Literal Translation
saying, Prophesy to us, Christ. Who is the one striking You?

American Standard Version
saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ: who is he that struck thee?

Bible in Basic English
Be a prophet, O Christ, and say who gave you a blow!

Hebrew Names Version
saying, "Prophesy to us, you Messiah! Who hit you?"

International Standard Version
saying, "Prophesy to us, you Christ![fn] Who is the one who hit you?"Mark 14:65; Luke 22:64;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
saying, Prophesy to us, Meshicha ! Who is he that smiteth thee?

Murdock Translation
and said to him: Prophesy to us, thou Messiah, who is it smote thee?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Saying: prophecie vnto vs, O Christ, who is he that smote thee?

English Revised Version
saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ: who is he that struck thee?

World English Bible
saying, "Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who hit you?"

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Saying, Prophesy to us, thou Christ, who is he that smote thee?

Weymouth's New Testament
while they taunted Him, saying, "Christ, prove yourself a Prophet by telling us who it was that struck you."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and seide, Thou Crist, arede to vs, who is he that smoot thee?

Update Bible Version
saying, Prophesy to us, Christ: who is he that struck you?

Webster's Bible Translation
Saying, Prophesy to us, thou Christ, Who is he that smote thee?

New English Translation
saying, "Prophesy for us, you Christ! Who hit you?"

New King James Version
saying, "Prophesy to us, Christ! Who is the one who struck You?"

New Living Translation
jeering, "Prophesy to us, you Messiah! Who hit you that time?"

New Life Bible
They said, "Tell us, Christ, You Who can tell what is going to happen, who hit You?"

New Revised Standard
saying, "Prophesy to us, you Messiah! Who is it that struck you?"

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
saying - Prophesy unto us, O Christ! Who is he that struck thee?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Saying: Prophesy unto us, O Christ. Who is he that struck thee?

Revised Standard Version
saying, "Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who is it that struck you?"

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
on ye face sayinge: tell vs thou Christ who is he that smote the?

Young's Literal Translation
saying, `Declare to us, O Christ, who he is that struck thee?'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
vpon the face, and sayde: Prophecie vnto us thou Christ, who is it, that smote the?

Mace New Testament (1729)
crying now Christ divine, who 't is that struck you?

Simplified Cowboy Version
said, "If you're the Son of God, tell us who is hittin' you!"

Contextual Overview

⁵⁷The gang that had seized Jesus led him before Caiaphas the Chief Priest, where the religion scholars and leaders had assembled. Peter followed at a safe distance until they got to the Chief Priest's courtyard. Then he slipped in and mingled with the servants, watching to see how things would turn out. ⁵⁹The high priests, conspiring with the Jewish Council, tried to cook up charges against Jesus in order to sentence him to death. But even though many stepped up, making up one false accusation after another, nothing was believable. Finally two men came forward with this: "He said, ‘I can tear down this Temple of God and after three days rebuild it.'" The Chief Priest stood up and said, "What do you have to say to the accusation?" Jesus kept silent. Then the Chief Priest said, "I command you by the authority of the living God to say if you are the Messiah, the Son of God." Jesus was curt: "You yourself said it. And that's not all. Soon you'll see it for yourself: The Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Mighty One, Arriving on the clouds of heaven." At that, the Chief Priest lost his temper, ripping his robes, yelling, "He blasphemed! Why do we need witnesses to accuse him? You all heard him blaspheme! Are you going to stand for such blasphemy?" They all said, "Death! That seals his death sentence." Then they were spitting in his face and banging him around. They jeered as they slapped him: "Prophesy, Messiah: Who hit you that time?" All this time, Peter was sitting out in the courtyard. One servant girl came up to him and said, "You were with Jesus the Galilean." In front of everybody there, he denied it. "I don't know what you're talking about." As he moved over toward the gate, someone else said to the people there, "This man was with Jesus the Nazarene." Again he denied it, salting his denial with an oath: "I swear, I never laid eyes on the man." Shortly after that, some bystanders approached Peter. "You've got to be one of them. Your accent gives you away." Then he got really nervous and swore. "I don't know the man!" Just then a rooster crowed. Peter remembered what Jesus had said: "Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times." He went out and cried and cried and cried. ⁶¹Anointed for Burial When Jesus finished saying these things, he told his disciples, "You know that Passover comes in two days. That's when the Son of Man will be betrayed and handed over for crucifixion." At that very moment, the party of high priests and religious leaders was meeting in the chambers of the Chief Priest named Caiaphas, conspiring to seize Jesus by stealth and kill him. They agreed that it should not be done during Passover Week. "We don't want a riot on our hands," they said. When Jesus was at Bethany, a guest of Simon the Leper, a woman came up to him as he was eating dinner and anointed him with a bottle of very expensive perfume. When the disciples saw what was happening, they were furious. "That's criminal! This could have been sold for a lot and the money handed out to the poor." When Jesus realized what was going on, he intervened. "Why are you giving this woman a hard time? She has just done something wonderfully significant for me. You will have the poor with you every day for the rest of your lives, but not me. When she poured this perfume on my body, what she really did was anoint me for burial. You can be sure that wherever in the whole world the Message is preached, what she has just done is going to be remembered and admired." That is when one of the Twelve, the one named Judas Iscariot, went to the cabal of high priests and said, "What will you give me if I hand him over to you?" They settled on thirty silver pieces. He began looking for just the right moment to hand him over. On the first of the Days of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and said, "Where do you want us to prepare your Passover meal?" He said, "Enter the city. Go up to a certain man and say, ‘The Teacher says, My time is near. I and my disciples plan to celebrate the Passover meal at your house.'" The disciples followed Jesus' instructions to the letter, and prepared the Passover meal. After sunset, he and the Twelve were sitting around the table. During the meal, he said, "I have something hard but important to say to you: One of you is going to hand me over to the conspirators." They were stunned, and then began to ask, one after another, "It isn't me, is it, Master?" Jesus answered, "The one who hands me over is someone I eat with daily, one who passes me food at the table. In one sense the Son of Man is entering into a way of treachery well-marked by the Scriptures—no surprises here. In another sense that man who turns him in, turns traitor to the Son of Man—better never to have been born than do this!" Then Judas, already turned traitor, said, "It isn't me, is it, Rabbi?" Jesus said, "Don't play games with me, Judas." During the meal, Jesus took and blessed the bread, broke it, and gave it to his disciples: Take, eat. This is my body. Taking the cup and thanking God, he gave it to them: Drink this, all of you. This is my blood, God's new covenant poured out for many people for the forgiveness of sins. "I'll not be drinking wine from this cup again until that new day when I'll drink with you in the kingdom of my Father." They sang a hymn and went directly to Mount Olives. Then Jesus told them, "Before the night's over, you're going to fall to pieces because of what happens to me. There is a Scripture that says, I'll strike the shepherd; helter-skelter the sheep will be scattered. But after I am raised up, I, your Shepherd, will go ahead of you, leading the way to Galilee." Peter broke in, "Even if everyone else falls to pieces on account of you, I won't." "Don't be so sure," Jesus said. "This very night, before the rooster crows up the dawn, you will deny me three times." Peter protested, "Even if I had to die with you, I would never deny you." All the others said the same thing. Then Jesus went with them to a garden called Gethsemane and told his disciples, "Stay here while I go over there and pray." Taking along Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he plunged into an agonizing sorrow. Then he said, "This sorrow is crushing my life out. Stay here and keep vigil with me." Going a little ahead, he fell on his face, praying, "My Father, if there is any way, get me out of this. But please, not what I want. You, what do you want?" When he came back to his disciples, he found them sound asleep. He said to Peter, "Can't you stick it out with me a single hour? Stay alert; be in prayer so you don't wander into temptation without even knowing you're in danger. There is a part of you that is eager, ready for anything in God. But there's another part that's as lazy as an old dog sleeping by the fire." He then left them a second time. Again he prayed, "My Father, if there is no other way than this, drinking this cup to the dregs, I'm ready. Do it your way." When he came back, he again found them sound asleep. They simply couldn't keep their eyes open. This time he let them sleep on, and went back a third time to pray, going over the same ground one last time. When he came back the next time, he said, "Are you going to sleep on and make a night of it? My time is up, the Son of Man is about to be handed over to the hands of sinners. Get up! Let's get going! My betrayer is here." The words were barely out of his mouth when Judas (the one from the Twelve) showed up, and with him a gang from the high priests and religious leaders brandishing swords and clubs. The betrayer had worked out a sign with them: "The one I kiss, that's the one—seize him." He went straight to Jesus, greeted him, "How are you, Rabbi?" and kissed him. Jesus said, "Friend, why this charade?" Then they came on him—grabbed him and roughed him up. One of those with Jesus pulled his sword and, taking a swing at the Chief Priest's servant, cut off his ear. Jesus said, "Put your sword back where it belongs. All who use swords are destroyed by swords. Don't you realize that I am able right now to call to my Father, and twelve companies—more, if I want them—of fighting angels would be here, battle-ready? But if I did that, how would the Scriptures come true that say this is the way it has to be?" Then Jesus addressed the mob: "What is this—coming out after me with swords and clubs as if I were a dangerous criminal? Day after day I have been sitting in the Temple teaching, and you never so much as lifted a hand against me. You've done it this way to confirm and fulfill the prophetic writings." Then all the disciples cut and ran. The gang that had seized Jesus led him before Caiaphas the Chief Priest, where the religion scholars and leaders had assembled. Peter followed at a safe distance until they got to the Chief Priest's courtyard. Then he slipped in and mingled with the servants, watching to see how things would turn out. The high priests, conspiring with the Jewish Council, tried to cook up charges against Jesus in order to sentence him to death. But even though many stepped up, making up one false accusation after another, nothing was believable. Finally two men came forward with this: "He said, ‘I can tear down this Temple of God and after three days rebuild it.'" ⁶² The Chief Priest stood up and said, "What do you have to say to the accusation?" ⁶³ Jesus kept silent. Then the Chief Priest said, "I command you by the authority of the living God to say if you are the Messiah, the Son of God." ⁶⁴ Jesus was curt: "You yourself said it. And that's not all. Soon you'll see it for yourself: The Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Mighty One, Arriving on the clouds of heaven." ⁶⁵At that, the Chief Priest lost his temper, ripping his robes, yelling, "He blasphemed! Why do we need witnesses to accuse him? You all heard him blaspheme! Are you going to stand for such blasphemy?" They all said, "Death! That seals his death sentence." ⁶⁷Then they were spitting in his face and banging him around. They jeered as they slapped him: "Prophesy, Messiah: Who hit you that time?"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Prophesy: Matthew 27:39-44, Genesis 37:19, Genesis 37:20, Judges 16:25, Mark 14:65, Luke 22:63-65

thou: Matthew 27:28, Matthew 27:29, Mark 15:18, Mark 15:19, John 19:2, John 19:3, John 19:14, John 19:15, 1 Peter 2:4-8

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 22:24 - Which way 2 Kings 1:9 - Thou man 2 Chronicles 18:23 - Which way Job 30:11 - let loose Psalms 69:7 - shame Jeremiah 37:15 - the princes Matthew 20:19 - to mock John 18:22 - struck Hebrews 12:2 - despising

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Saying, prophesy unto us, thou Christ,.... Not that they owned him to be the Messiah; but because he asserted himself to be the Messiah, and his followers believed in him as such, they call him so; and in an ironical and sarcastic way, call upon him to divine, and tell them who the persons were, that used him in this manner; suggesting, that if he was the Christ, or Messiah, he would know all things, and what were done to him:

who is he that smote thee? for they had covered his face, or blindfolded him, as the other Evangelists say, Mark 14:65, and then bid him tell them who smote him last. Christ did not think fit to give them an answer to this question, but he will let them know hereafter, who the particular person, or persons were, that smote him; and when it will appear to all the churches, and to all the world, that he is the Lord God omniscient. Some learned men have observed a, that there was a play formerly used, called by the ancients, κολλαβισμος, at which, one person having his face covered, the rest smote him; or one put his hands over his eyes, and another smote, and asked him who it was that smote? and such an exercise is yet in being among us, which is commonly called Blindman's Buff; and such pastime as this the Jews had with Christ; in this ludicrous way did they use him, and made him their sport and diversion, as the Philistines did Samson; but it will cost them dear another day.

a Braunii Select. Sacr. l. 5. Exerc. 2. sect. 38. p. 622, 623. & Capelt. in loc. e Polluce, l. 9. c. 7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Saying, Prophesy unto us ... - Mark informs us that before they said this they had blindfolded him. Having prevented his seeing, they ridiculed his pretensions of being the Messiah. If he Was the Christ, they supposed he could tell who smote him As he bore it patiently and did not answer, they doubtless supposed that they had discovered another reason to think he was an impostor. The word “prophesy” does not mean only to foretell future events, although that is the proper meaning of the word, but also to declare anything that is unknown, or anything which cannot be known by natural knowledge or without revelation. Luke adds, “And many other things blasphemously spoke they against him.” There is something very remarkable in this expression. They had charged Him with “blasphemy” in claiming to be the Son of God. This charge they were not able to prove; but the evangelist fixes the charge of “blasphemy” on them, because he really was the Son of God, and they denied it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 68. Prophesy unto us, thou Christ — Their conduct toward him now was expressly prophesied of, by a man whose Divine mission they did not pretend to deny; see Isaiah 50:6. It appears that, before they buffeted him, they bound up his eyes, See Mark 14:65.