Psalms 35:16

From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.

He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldy!”

Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”

He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.

“ ‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

You shall eat no leavened bread with it. You shall eat unleavened bread with it seven days, even the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste) that you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.

He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.

Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, “Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!”

Whoever despises instruction will pay for it, but he who respects a command will be rewarded.

For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, “Violence and destruction!” because Yahweh’s word has been made a reproach to me, and a derision, all day.

All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”

“All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.

Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Armies.

and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium, and gathered the whole garrison together against him.

that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what kind of death he should die.

But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and were determined to kill them.

They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

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.

Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come! Let’s meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono.” But they intended to harm me.

Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?

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

“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.

Don’t let them say in their heart, “Aha! That’s the way we want it!” Don’t let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”

The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.

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

The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

They have denied Yahweh, and said, “It is not he. Evil will won’t come on us. We won’t see sword or famine.

The army was given over to it together with the continual burnt offering through disobedience. It cast down truth to the ground, and it did its pleasure and prospered.

Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

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!”

saying, “Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: ‘After three days I will rise again.’

He warned them, saying, “Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.”

The soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium; and they called together the whole cohort.

Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

saying, “You went in to uncircumcised men, and ate with them!”

There were certain men, who were unclean because of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day.

But after our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.

“Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.

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

You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place?

He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.

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

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;

Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

For Yahweh says, “Your hurt is incurable. Your wound is grievous.

For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, “Why do you prophesy, and say, ‘Yahweh says, “Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will take it;

“Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his mouth with my delicacies. He has cast me out.

“Come! Let’s return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

Then he released to them Barabbas, but Jesus he flogged and delivered to be crucified.

and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth, and wastes away. I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they weren’t able.”

They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty.

Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.

But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.”

Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.

So Pilate then took Jesus, and flogged him.

Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Behold, your King!”

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

He said to them, “You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean.

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

“I will hear you fully when your accusers also arrive.” He commanded that he be kept in Herod’s palace.

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

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.

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.

and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, and to crucify; and the third day he will be raised up.”

They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.

Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

Therefore let’s keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.