And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him, Prophesy: and the guards did strike him with the palms of their hands.
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Theophylact of Ochrid
AD 1107
But He remained silent because He knew that they would not attend to His words, wherefore He answered according to Luke, “If I tell you, ye will not believe.” Wherefore there follows: “Again the High Priest asked Him, and said unto Him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?”The High Priest indeed puts this question, not that he might learn of Him and believe, but in order to seek occasion against Him. But he asks, “Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed,” because there were many Christs, that is, anointed persons, as Kings and High Priests, but none of these was called the Son of the Blessed God, that is, the Ever-praised.
For He knew that they would not believe, nevertheless He answered them, lest they should afterwards say, If we had heard any thing from Him, we would have believed on Him; but this is their condemnation, that they heard and did not believe.
As if He had said, Ye shall see Me as the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of the Father, for He he recalls the Father, “power”. He will not however come without a body, but as He appeared to those who crucified Him, so will He appear in the judgment.
The High Priest does after the manner of the Jews; for whenever any thing intolerable or sad occurred to the m, they used to rend their clothes. In order then to show that Christ had spoken great and intolerable blasphemy, he rent his clothes.
The Jewish priesthood was tobe rent from the time that they condemned Christ as guilty of death. Wherefore there follows: “And they all condemned Him to be guilty of death.”
