Assault and Battery
12 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
Laws Concerning
- Exodus 21:15 Whoever strikes his father or mother must surely be put to death.
- Exodus 21:18 If men are quarreling and one strikes the other with a stone or a fist, and he does not die but is confined to bed,
- Exodus 21:22–27 If men who are fighting strike a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no further injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband demands and as the court allows. …
- Deuteronomy 17:8–12 If a case is too difficult for you to judge, whether the controversy within your gates is regarding bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults, you must go up to the place the LORD your God will choose. …
- Matthew 5:38–39 You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye and tooth for tooth.’ …
Striking Jesus: Prophecies of
- Isaiah 50:6 I offered My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who tore out My beard. I did not hide My face from scorn and spittle.
- Lamentations 3:30 Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach.
Striking Jesus: The Attacks Upon
- Matthew 26:67 Then they spit in His face and struck Him. Others slapped Him
- Matthew 27:30 Then they spit on Him and took the staff and struck Him on the head repeatedly.
- Mark 14:65 Then some of them began to spit on Him. They blindfolded Him, struck Him with their fists, and said to Him, “Prophesy!” And the officers received Him with slaps in His face.
- Luke 22:63 The men who were holding Jesus began to mock Him and beat Him.
- John 19:3 And they went up to Him again and again, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and slapping Him in the face.
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.