Note 3 at Lk. 22:64: Those who struck Jesus and told Him to prophesy who it was that struck Him, must have taken Jesus' silence as proof that He was not who He claimed to be. The natural mind could not conceive that Almighty God would take this kind of abuse from His creation. But this was the plan of God.

Isaiah had prophesied that, as a lamb before its shearers is dumb (Isa. 53:7), so Jesus would not open His mouth. Isaiah also mentioned that Jesus "was taken from prison and from judgment" referring to the fact that He was not given a fair trial (Isa. 53:8). Isaiah went on to prophesy in Isaiah 53:9 that Jesus would make "his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death." This was fulfilled when Jesus was crucified between two thieves (Mt. 27:38; Mk. 15:27; Lk. 23:32; Jn. 19:18) and buried in a rich man's tomb (Mt. 27:57- 60; Mk. 15:42-46; Lk. 23:50-53; Jn. 19:38).

Note 4 at Lk. 22:64: Jesus had shown on many occasions before that He could call people that He had never met before by name (Lk. 19:5), tell people things that they had done (Jn. 1:48; 4:18), know what a person's thoughts were (Lk. 7:39- 40), and learn anything else that He would care to know.

Jesus could have made all His accusers fall to their faces with the things that He could have revealed. However, if He would have done that, the scriptures concerning His death would not have been fulfilled and there would not have been any faith exhibited on the part of those mocking Him. They would have been forced to believe.

There is coming a day though, when "every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof" (Mt. 12:36). Jesus will tell them everything about themselves and they will have to bow their knee and confess that this same Jesus who they mocked is Lord (Phil. 2:10-11).