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I gave my back to the strikers, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair; I didn`t hide my face from shame and spitting.
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A Precise Portrait of the Cross
Commentators unanimously identify this verse as a direct and literal prophecy of the Messiah's suffering. Scholars like Albert Barnes and John Gill explain that the specific actions—scourging, plucking the beard (a grave cultural insult), and spitting—were not just general descriptions of hardship but precise predictions that were literally fulfilled in the passion of Jesus Christ as recorded in the Gospels.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
I gave my back to the smiters - I submitted willingly to be scourged, or whipped. This is one of the parts of this chapter that can…
19th Century
Anglican
The Lord God. — Jehovah Adonai, as before. The Servant continues his soliloquy. What has come to him in the morning commu…
Baptist
I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
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16th Century
Protestant
I exposed my body to the smiters. With the reproaches, jeers, and insolence of wicked men, he contrasts the unshaken courage that he posse…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
I gave my back to the smiters To Pontius Pilate, and those he ordered to scourge him, (Matthew 27:26)
As Jesus was God and man in one person, we find Him sometimes speaking, or spoken of, as the Lord God; at other times, as man and the servant of Je…
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13th Century
Catholic
1. Thus says the Lord: What is this... Here the prophet begins to address the obstacles to Israel's liberation. He proceeds in two …
