Luke 8:53

Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, “Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,

Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry; behold, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Behold, my servants will rejoice, but you will be disappointed;

to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and shake his head.

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!”

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already.

“But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on.

“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.

Many there are who say of my soul, “There is no help for him in God.”

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.

Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness.

He said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch.”

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.

So the couriers went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, “You children of Israel, turn again to Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may return to the remnant of you that have escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.

They came to Hilkiah the high priest, and delivered the money that was brought into God’s house, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had gathered from the hands of Manasseh, Ephraim, of all the remnant of Israel, of all Judah and Benjamin, and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,

You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.

Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.

For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off—

I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.

Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.

All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”

I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

and said, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.’ ”

Then they spat in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,

He said to them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised?

who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation.”

The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown, and put it on his head, and dressed him in a purple garment.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,

He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city!” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.

So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun, but people ridiculed them and mocked them.

Letters were sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder their possessions.

The couriers went out in haste by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Susa was perplexed.

He wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, and sealed it with the king’s ring, and sent letters by courier on horseback, riding on royal horses that were bred from swift steeds.

Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous.

Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, will no man make you ashamed?

I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.

Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.

Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?

“Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.

All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you.

For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.

for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.

I am small and despised. I don’t forget your precepts.

Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.

He who walks in his uprightness fears Yahweh, but he who is perverse in his ways despises him.

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.

Whom do you mock? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out your tongue? Aren’t you children of disobedience and offspring of falsehood,

‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’

he said to them, “Make room, because the girl isn’t dead, but sleeping.” They were ridiculing him.

They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”

They ridiculed him. But he, having put them all out, took the father of the child, her mother, and those who were with him, and went in where the child was lying.

When they had mocked him, they took the purple off him, and put his own garments on him. They led him out to crucify him.

Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.

Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.

Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.”

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”

Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.