Then he says: I will return to my house, out of which I came. And he comes and finds it empty, swept, and. set in order.

Then did they spit in his face, and strike him with their fists; some struck him with the open hand,

And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and struck him on the head.

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

And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the village. And he spit on his eyes, and laid his hands on him, and asked him if he saw any thing.

and they will deride him, and scourge him, and spit upon him, and kill him, and on the third day he will rise again.

And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to strike him with their fists, and to say to him: Give a response. And the attendants struck him with their open hands.

And they struck him on the head with a reed, and spit upon him, and bowing their knees, did him homage.

And he comes and finds it swept, and set in order.

For he shall be delivered to the Gentiles, and shall be derided and insulted and spit upon;

Having said this, he spit on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and spread the clay on the eyes of the blind man,

by means of death in his fleshly body, that he may present you holy, and without spot, and blameless in his sight;

how much more will the blood of the Christ, who, through the eternal Spirit, offered himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works, in order that you may serve the living God?

but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without spot and blemish,