We can also decide to do the opposite of what these did to Jesus. The Gospel of Matthew adds that Jesus was stripped, given a reed as mocking a royal scepter, that the soldiers bowed their knee before Jesus, offering mocking homage and honor to Him, and that they spat on Jesus.The soldiers also struck Him with their hands, beating and mocking Jesus simply to gratify cruelty and wickedness.It was meant to humiliate Jesus, but also the Jews – saying, “This is the best King they can bring forth.” “Hail, King of the Jews!” Kings are greeted with royal titles, so in their spite they mocked Jesus with this title.The purple robe was intended as cruel irony. Put on Him a purple robe: Kings and rulers often wore purple, because the dyes to make fabrics that color were expensive.This was a crown that cut, pierced, and bloodied the head of the King who wore it. The specific thorn-bushes of this region have long, hard, sharp thorns. The soldiers twisted a crown of thorns: Kings wear crowns, but not crowns of torture.The Jewish rulers had already mocked Jesus as the Messiah (Matthew 26:67-68). Then they said, “Hail, King of the Jews!”: Everything about this was intended to humiliate Jesus. The soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and they put on Him a purple robe. There is no attempt to play on our emotions.” (Morris)Ĭ. “It is a further example of the reserve of the Gospels that they use but one word to describe this piece of frightfulness.
Few remained conscious throughout the ordeal some died and many went raving mad.” (Barclay) “It literally tore a man’s back into strips. “The victim of this severe punishment was bound in a stooping attitude to a low column and beaten with rods or scourged with whips, the thongs of which were weighted with lead, and studded with sharp-pointed pieces of bone, so that frightful laceration followed each stroke.” (Dods) “Neither, then, as part of the capital punishment, nor in order to elicit the truth but in the ill-judged hope that this minor punishment might satisfy the Jews, Pilate ordered the scourging.” (Dods) Pilate hoped that this punishment of his prisoner would satisfy the crowd. Also, in cases of crucifixion scourging was used to weaken the victim so he would die more quickly on the cross. It was used to punish prisoners, and to gain confessions of crimes from prisoners. It reduced the back to raw flesh, and it was not unusual for a criminal to die from a scourging, even before crucifixion. The blows came from a whip with many leather strands, each having sharp pieces of bone or metal at the ends. Scourged Him: Pilate gave the order, so Jesus was scourged according to Roman practice. It has been suggested that Pilate wanted to help Jesus, hoping the mob would be satisfied with the scourging.ī. So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him: Previously Pilate said of Jesus, I find no fault in Him at all (John 18:38), yet he commanded this severe, brutal punishment for a Man he knew was innocent. Pilate then went out again, and said to them, “Behold, I am bringing Him out to you, that you may know that I find no fault in Him.”Ī. Then they said, “Hail, King of the Jews!” And they struck Him with their hands. And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and they put on Him a purple robe. So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. (1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked.
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