Then the prophet Zedekiah went up to Micaiah, slapped his face, and asked, "Since when did the LORD's spirit leave me and speak to you?"

"You will find out when you go into some back room to hide," Micaiah replied.

The LORD has given me understanding, and I have not rebelled or turned away from him.

I bared my back to those who beat me. I did not stop them when they insulted me, when they pulled out the hairs of my beard and spit in my face.

Though beaten and insulted, we should accept it all.

People of Jerusalem, gather your forces! We are besieged! They are attacking the leader of Israel!

Some of them began to spit on Jesus, and they blindfolded him and hit him. "Guess who hit you!" they said. And the guards took him and slapped him.

They beat him over the head with a stick, spat on him, fell on their knees, and bowed down to him.

When they had finished making fun of him, they took off the purple robe and put his own clothes back on him. Then they led him out to crucify him.

"If the world hates you, just remember that it has hated me first.

Remember what I told you: 'Slaves are not greater than their master.' If people persecuted me, they will persecute you too; if they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours too.

The High Priest Ananias ordered those who were standing close to Paul to strike him on the mouth.

Then Hananiah took the yoke off my neck, broke it in pieces,

and said in the presence of all the people, "The LORD has said that this is how he will break the yoke that King Nebuchadnezzar has put on the neck of all the nations; and he will do this within two years." Then I left.

"The LORD made you a priest in place of Jehoiada, and you are now the chief officer in the Temple. It is your duty to see that every crazy person who pretends to be a prophet is placed in chains with an iron collar around the neck.

Why haven't you done this to Jeremiah of Anathoth, who has been speaking as a prophet to the people?

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

"He saved others, but he cannot save himself ! Isn't he the king of Israel? If he will come down off the cross now, we will believe in him!

He trusts in God and claims to be God's Son. Well, then, let us see if God wants to save him now!"