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Mat_26:68. Προφήτευσον ἡμῖν ] Differently in Mar_14:65. But so far as the προφήτ ., τίς ἐστιν , κ . τ . λ . is concerned, Luk_22:64 agrees with Matthew, although the favourite mode of accounting for this would seem to be that of tracing it to the obscuring influence of a later tradition; in no case, however, is this theory to be applied to the exposition of Matthew, for it would involve a point of essential consequence. According to Matthew, the sport lay in the demand that Jesus as Messiah, and consequently as a prophet (Mat_21:11), should tell who it was that had struck Him, though He had no natural means of knowing. This conduct, of course, proceeds on the assumption that the Messiah possessed that higher knowledge which is derived from divine revelation; hence also the scoffing way in which they address Him by the title of Χριστός . Fritzsche thinks that the prominent idea here is that of foretelling, as being calculated, when thus conjoined with the preterite παίσας , to form an acerba irrisio. But that would be more likely to result in an absurda irrisio, unmarked by the slightest touch of humour.