Afraid to look in His eyes?

 Now the men who were holding Jesus in custody were mocking him as they beat him. They also blindfolded him and kept asking him, “Prophesy! Who is it that struck you?” And they said many other things against him, blaspheming him. (Luke 22:63-65 ESV)
To be sure, one purpose of the blindfold was so these officers could play their little game with Jesus - to try to show that He wasn't the great prophet He was cracked up to be.  But it did something else - it made it so they did not have to look at His eyes - the same eyes that had just looked at Peter and spoken a thousand words - the eyes that look at you and know everything, the eyes that offer the grace and compassion many are unwilling to accept, the eyes that cry over our hard-heartedness.  As we look at the parallel passages in the other gospels, when this beating takes place, the Chief Priest has just pronounced Jesus is guitly of blasphemy - an unjust appraisal; the response to that is to blaspheme Him, the true son of God.