John 18:22
Good News Translation
When Jesus said this, one of the guards there slapped him and said, "How dare you talk like that to the High Priest!"

New Revised Standard Version
When he had said this, one of the police standing nearby struck Jesus on the face, saying, “Is that how you answer the high priest?”

Contemporary English Version
As soon as Jesus said this, one of the temple police hit him and said, "That's no way to talk to the high priest!"

New American Bible
When he had said this, one of the temple guards standing there struck Jesus and said, “Is this the way you answer the high priest?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when he had said these things, one of the servants standing by gave Jesus a blow, saying: Answerest thou the high priest so?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And when he had said these things, one of the servants standing by gave Jesus a blow, saying: Answerest thou the high priest so?

struck.

Job 16:10 They have opened their mouths upon me, and reproaching me they have struck me on the cheek, they are filled with my pains.

Job 30:10-12 They abhor me, and flee far from me, and are not afraid to spit in my face. . . .

Isaiah 50:5-7 The Lord God hath opened my ear, and I do not resist: I have not gone back. . . .

Jeremiah 20:2 And Phassur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks, that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, in the house of the Lord.

Micah 5:1 Arise, and tread, O daughter of Sion: for I will make thy horn iron, and thy hoofs I will make brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many peoples, and shalt immolate the spoils of them to the Lord, and their strength to the Lord of the whole earth.

Matthew 26:67,68 Then did they spit in his face and buffeted him. And others struck his face with the palms of their hands, . . .

Mark 14:65 And some began to spit on him and to cover his face and to buffet him and to say unto him: Prophesy. And the servants struck him with the palms their hands.

Luke 22:63,64 And the men that held him mocked him and struck him. . . .

Acts 23:2,3 And the high priest, Ananias, commanded them that stood by him to strike him on the mouth. . . .

the palm of his hand.

Acts 23:4,5 And they that stood by said: Dost thou revile the high priest of God? . . .

Context
Jesus Before the High Priest
21Why askest thou me? Ask them who have heard what I have spoken unto them. Behold they know what things I have said. 22And when he had said these things, one of the servants standing by gave Jesus a blow, saying: Answerest thou the high priest so? 23Jesus answered him: If I have spoken evil, give testimony of the evil; but if well, why strikest thou me?…
Cross References
Matthew 26:67
Then did they spit in his face and buffeted him. And others struck his face with the palms of their hands,

Luke 22:63
And the men that held him mocked him and struck him.

John 18:3
Judas therefore having received a band of soldiers and servants from the chief priests and the Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons.

John 18:21
Why askest thou me? Ask them who have heard what I have spoken unto them. Behold they know what things I have said.

John 19:3
And they came to him and said: Hail, king of the Jews. And they gave him blows.

Acts 23:2
And the high priest, Ananias, commanded them that stood by him to strike him on the mouth.

John 18:21
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