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Mark 14
mark.14.m14Slaps
οἱ ὑπηρέται ῥαπίσμασιν αὐτὸν ἔλαβον
What did the attendants do to Jesus?
The guards and attendants abuse Jesus through blows while demanding prophetic identification.
Why this default
‘The attendants received him with slaps’ is the working default because it preserves Mark’s difficult combination of lambano with rhapismata, possibly joining custody and blows. ‘Struck him’ gives the obvious action but drops the unusual verb; the custody option explains both senses more fully than the Greek explicitly does.
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Project default · difficult wording
Action explicit
Both senses
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