And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat and touched his tongue.

So he took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village. And when he had spit on his eyes and put his hands on him, he asked him "Do you see anything?"

and they will mock him, and spit on him, and scourge him, and kill him. And after three days he will rise."

Then some began to spit on him, and to blindfold him, and to beat him, and to say to him, "Prophesy!" And the guards received him with slaps in the face.

Then they struck him on the head with a reed and spat on him; and falling on their knees, they paid homage to him.