John 19:1

Then Pilate took Jesus inside and had soldiers ◄scourge Jesus/strike Jesus with a whip that had pieces of metal or bone fastened to it►.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.

In Context

2The soldiers also took some branches with thorns and wove them to make something like a crown. Then they put it on his head. They also put a purple robe on him. They did these things to ridicule him by pretending that he was a king.

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Cross References

Psalms 129:3Our enemies struck us with whips that cut into our backs [MET] like a farmer uses a plow to cut deep furrows into the ground.”

Isaiah 53:5But his body will be bruised because of the evil things that we did, wounded because of our sins. He will be beaten in order that things will go well for our souls; and because he will be whipped, our souls can be healed.

Matthew 23:34Take note that this is why I will send prophets, wise men, and other men who will teach you my message. You will kill some of them by nailing them to crosses, and you will kill some in other ways. You will whip some of them in the places where you worship, and you will chase them from city to city.

Mark 10:33“Listen carefully! We are going up to Jerusalem. There the chief priests and the men who teach the Jewish laws will be enabled {someone will help the chief priests and those who teach our Jewish laws} to seize me. Then they will declare that I must die, even though I am the one who came from heaven. Then they will take me to the Roman authorities.

Luke 18:33They will whip me, and then they will kill me. But on the third day after that I will become alive again.”

Luke 23:23But they kept insisting. They shouted loudly that Jesus should be nailed {that Pilate should have his soldiers nail Jesus} to a cross. Finally, because they continued to shout [PRS] so loudly,

Matthew Henry on John 19:1

Though in the history hitherto this evangelist seems industriously to have declined the recording of such passages as had been related by the other evangelists, yet, when he comes to the sufferings and death of Christ, instead of passing them over, as one ashamed of his Master's chain and cross, and looking upon them as the blemishes of his story, he repeats what had been before related, with considerable enlargements, as one that desired to know nothing but Christ and him crucified, to glory in nothing save in… Read the whole commentary →

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