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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But they looked from afar off for Him, whom though near they cannot see, as Isaac from the blindness of his eyes does not know Jacob who was under his hands, but prophecies long before things which were to come to him. It goes on: “Jesus said, I am;” namely, that they might be inexcusable.
They condemned Him to be guilty of death, that by His guiltiness He might absolve our guilt.
