4. Jesus is Beaten

read by Nic Fridenmaker

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But he [Pilate] had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified. Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company of soldiers around him. They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand. Then they knelt in front of him and mocked him. “Hail, king of the Jews!” they said. They spit on him, and took the staff and struck him on the head again and again. After they had mocked him, they took off the robe and put his own clothes on him.

Some deaths are quick.
Some deaths are noble.
This death was neither.
It’s one thing to kill a man,
It’s another to shame and humiliate him.
Think for a second…
That the King of heaven
has spit on His face.
O, the divine disgrace of our Savior.

What was said to mock Jesus?

Which aspect of the suffering that Jesus endured do you think was the most unbearable?

Original artwork by Zach Rollins, adapted with permission for Eastbrook by Liz Carver.