⁶³ Then the high priest tore his clothes. “Why do we still need witnesses?” he asked. ⁶⁴ “You have heard his blasphemy! What is your verdict?” All of them condemned him as deserving death.

⁶⁵ Some of them began to spit on him. They blindfolded him and kept hitting him with their fists and telling him, “Prophesy!” Even the servants took him and slapped him around.