Our Lord Jesus was cruelly mocked and taunted during His ministry, and certainly when He was crucified to save us.--Isaiah had foretold that this would be- -He is despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. And we hid our faces from Him, and esteemed Him not.---When Jesus cast a demon out of the blind and dumb man, the Pharisees scoffed that He had done so by the power of the prince of devils. Imagine, they mocked Christ for doing a good thing for this poor man---When Jesus healed the man born blind, they denounced Him as -not of God,- because He had healed on the Sabbath day. Later on, they asserted that He was a sinner, and that they didn't know where He came from.--Christ Himself warned His disciples that He would be mocked and spit upon, and murdered by wicked men, and rise again the third day.--At His trial before the Sanhedrin, He was blindfolded and struck on the face, and taunted to guess who it was that struck Him.--When they hauled Christ before Herod, Herod and his men belittled Him, and mocked Him, and dressed Him in a gorgeous robe, like some character in a comedy.--Pilate's men were the worst. They flogged our Lord Jesus, stripped Him of His clothes, dressed Him in scarlet, pressed a crown of thorns upon His head, and placed a reed in His hand.--They staged their own -tableau,- dressing Jesus up as a clown king, with royal robes, and a crown, and a scepter. They mocked Him with the words, -Hail, King of the Jews,- and then as His blood ran down His face from the thorns, they smote His bleeding head with the reed.--Then the people at the cross mocked Jesus. They wagged their heads at Him, and dared Him to save Himself.