THE SCOURGING AT THE PILLAR
THE SCOURGING3
Click here to see a larger picture
At the dawn of Friday morning, the ancients, chief priests and scribes
met to decide the Death of Christ, which they all desired.
Having done so, they brought Jesus to the house of Pilate, the
Governor of Judea, who had the authority to pass a Death sentence.
Pilate could find no crime in Him worthy of a Death sentence, so to
satisfy the Jews he decided he would punish Him and then dismiss Him.
But the Jews, crying out loudly, demanded that Christ be crucified.
Then Pilate washed his hands in the presence of all the people, saying:
`I have no share in the death of this Just Man whom you condemn.'
Look to yourselves in what you are doing.'
Thereupon they brought Jesus to the place of punishment.
There they removed His tunic, and bound Him brutally to one of the
marble columns.
Then two at a time, His six torturers began to scourge
Him with such inhuman cruelty, as was possible only in men possessed
by Lucifer. In their sacrilegious fury, they strained all the powers
of their body to inflict the blows, each trying to outdo the other.
His Sacred Blood bespattered and drenched the garments of His
torturers, running down also in streams to the pavement. Their
ceaseless blows inhumanly tore His Flesh, and scattered pieces about
the pavement. In several places bones were exposed, and showed red
through the flowing Blood.
Pray
Continue...