“You shall appoint for yourself judges and officers in all your towns which the Lord your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

And while He was being accused by the chief priests and elders, He did not answer.

And they began to accuse Him, saying, “We found this man misleading our nation and forbidding to pay taxes to Caesar, and saying that He Himself is Christ, a King.”

‘The kings of the earth

took their stand,

And the rulers were gathered together
Against the Lord and against His

Christ.’

I was

But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered themselves together;
The

smiters whom I did not know gathered together against me,

They

slandered me without ceasing.

“Fools, even those without a name,
They were scourged from the land.

They *dressed Him up in purple, and after twisting a crown of thorns, they put it on Him;

Drunkards

When Belshazzar tasted the wine, he gave orders to bring the gold and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines might drink from them.

General references

They do not drink wine with song;

Strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.

I have become a laughingstock to all my people,
Their mocking song all the day.