224. The Lord’s Passion: The Scourging. Mt. 27:27–30; Mk. 15:16–19; Jn. 19:1–3

Then Pilate took the Lord Jesus and ordered the soldiers to beat him. The soldiers of the governor, taking him, led him into the inner courtyard of the praetorium and gathered the whole garrison around him. Stripping him of his clothes, they put on him a scarlet robe, and weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on his head, and put a reed in his right hand, and knelt before him in mockery, saying: Hail, King of the Jews! and they struck him on the cheeks, and spat on him, and took the reed and struck him on the head.