Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: but if well, why smitest thou me?

Ver. 23. If I have spoken evil] Christ bears with the officer's insolence, but forbears not to clear his own innocence. We must, when aspersed, labour as the eclipsed moon, by keeping our motion, to wade out of the shadow and recover our former splendour.

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