Mark 14:65

Having judged Jesus guilty, some of the Sanhedrin members vented their anger by attacking Him bodily. The temple guards present joined them in beating Jesus. Spitting and hitting were traditional Jewish ways of expressing repudiation (cf. Numbers 12:14; Deuteronomy 25:9; Job 30:10; Isaiah 50:6). Even today spitting in someone’s face is one of the grossest forms of personal insult. Evidently they blindfolded Jesus and challenged Him to identify His assailants because of a belief that Messiah did not need to see but could judge by smell (Isaiah 11:2-4). [Note: Lane, p. 540.] The Old Testament predicted this type of abuse for Messiah (Isaiah 53:5; Isaiah 53:7-8; Isaiah 53:10). [Note: See Laurna L. Berg, "The Illegalities of Jesus’ Religious and Civil Trials," Bibliotheca Sacra 161:643 (July-September 2004):330-42.] Peter recorded that through all this suffering Jesus did not protest or retaliate (1 Peter 2:21-23; cf. Isaiah 53:7).