For [it were] well if He would thoroughly search you: for though doing all things [in your power] you should attach yourselves to Him,

Many bulls have compassed Me; fat bulls have beset Me round about.

They have opened their mouth against Me, as a ravening and roaring lion.

Let them be confounded and ashamed together that rejoice at my afflictions; let them be clothed with shame and confusion that speak great swelling words against me.

Therefore do not rejoice, neither let your bands be made strong; for I have heard of works finished and cut short by the Lord of hosts, which He will execute upon all the earth.

Thus says the Lord that delivered you, the God of Israel, Sanctify him that despises his life, him that is abhorred by the nations that are the servants of princes; kings shall behold him, and princes shall arise, and shall worship him, for the Lord's sake; for the Holy One of Israel is faithful, and I have chosen you.

And I will cut off three shepherds in one month, and My soul shall grieve over them, for their souls cried out against Me.

Likewise the chief priests also, mocking [Him] to each other with the scribes said, "He saved others; Himself He is not able to save.

Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross, so that we may see and believe Him." Even those who were crucified with Him were reviling Him.

For He will be betrayed to the Gentiles, and will be mocked and insulted and spit upon,

Then Jesus said to the chief priests, captains of the temple, and the elders who had come to Him, "Have you come out, as against a bandit, with swords and clubs?

And the people stood, observing. And the rulers with them also were sneering, saying, "He saved others; let Him save Himself if He is the Christ, the elect of God."