Matk 14

Reading for Monday October 21, 2019
Mark 14

Mark 14: 61-65
Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?  And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.  Then the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, What need we any further witnesses? Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye? And they all condemned him to be guilty of death.  And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him, Prophesy: and the servants did strike him with the palms of their hands.

From the time Jesus enters Jerusalem, events correlate to the Jewish traditions of sacrificing a lamb for passover.  This includes having the priest lay hands upon the head of the lamb to be sacrifieced.