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Allusion
Later text
“Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and scribes. They will condemn Him to death and will deliver Him over to the Gentiles, who will mock Him and spit on Him and flog Him and kill Him. And after three days He will rise again.”
Earlier text
Isaiah 50:6BSB
I offered My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who tore out My beard. I did not hide My face from scorn and spittle.
Earlier text
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not. Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken by God, struck down and afflicted. But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.
This third prediction, the most detailed of Mark's three passion predictions, shares Isaiah 50:6's Greek wording: its whips and spitting are foretold together here (Mark 10:34, following the Greek where the Hebrew reads "those who struck Me"), and its slaps to the face and spitting are narrated at the trial (Mark 14:65); the flogging itself is narrated at Mark 15:15 in a different word. The details He foretells—mocking, spitting, flogging—demonstrate Jesus' sovereign awareness, portraying his suffering not as unfortunate martyrdom but as willing fulfillment of Scripture's prophetic pattern. The prediction immediately precedes James and John's glory request (10:35-40), highlighting the disciples' continued failure to grasp that suffering precedes exaltation and that discipleship involves sharing the servant's suffering path.