15 ¶ And so Pilate, willing to content the people,
released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to
be crucified.
Proverbs 29:25 ¶ The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso
putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe.
Pilate
is a typical politician, pandering to the people. Even though he was not
elected but appointed he is afraid of the people rising up damaging his
position. All of them lie and are afraid of the people. Rarely do they have the
courage of their convictions and usually too late after a long line of
cowardice. It is very hard to be a Christian and a politician if you want to
get re-elected. Politics is the art of compromise. Compromises can be good but
many compromises, such as this one, are just hideous.
Scourging
is a hideous whipping with a whip with bone and glass intertwined in it.
Christ
was to be crucified. It was a bloody death but without the shedding of blood
there is no remission of sins.
Hebrews 9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged
with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
Blood
is life.
Genesis 9:4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the
blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Blood
made atonement for the soul.
Leviticus 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood:
and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls:
for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
He,
God in the flesh, paid for us, those who believe and trust Him, with His own blood,
not a sacrificial animal.
Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore unto
yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you
overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own
blood.
Hebrews 9:12 Neither by the blood
of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy
place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
Hebrews 13:12 Wherefore Jesus also,
that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the
gate.
Revelation 1:5 And from Jesus
Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and
the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us
from our sins in his own blood,
16
And the soldiers led him away into the hall, called Praetorium; and they
call together the whole band. 17 And
they clothed him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about
his head,
The
Romans put this robe on him. The robe is to make fun of him, a mockery of his
kingship.
18
And began to salute him, Hail, King of the Jews! 19 And they smote him on the head with a reed,
and did spit upon him, and bowing their knees worshipped him. 20 And when they had mocked him, they took off
the purple from him, and put his own clothes on him, and led him out to crucify
him.
Notice
the mockery of Jesus.
Isaiah 50:6 I gave my back to the
smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face
from shame and spitting.
Isaiah 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he
was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and
with his stripes we are healed.
21
And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the
country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.
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