So Pilate then took Jesus, and flogged him.
Parallel translations
- KJV Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.
- BSB Then Pilate took Jesus and had Him flogged.
- NKJV So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him.
- NASB So Pilate then took Jesus and had Him flogged.
- NLT Then Pilate had Jesus flogged with a lead-tipped whip.
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Quick answer
Pilate has Jesus scourged, a brutal Roman flogging, even though he has found no guilt in him. It marks the start of Jesus' physical suffering as Pilate tries to appease the crowd.
Overview
Roman scourging tore the flesh with a leather whip and was itself sometimes fatal. Pilate likely hoped this lesser punishment would satisfy the crowd and let him release Jesus, yet he is condemning a man he repeatedly declares innocent. Jesus willingly bears this suffering, fulfilling Isaiah's portrait of the Servant by whose stripes we are healed (Isaiah 53:5).
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- Isa 53:5But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.
- Isa 50:6I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.
- Matt 20:19and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, and to crucify; and the third day he will be raised up.”
- Luke 18:33They will scourge and kill him. On the third day, he will rise again.”
- Luke 23:16I will therefore chastise him and release him.”
- Matt 23:34Therefore behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;
- Mark 15:15–20Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.
- Luke 23:23But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed.
- Matt 27:26–31Then he released to them Barabbas, but Jesus he flogged and delivered to be crucified.
- Mark 10:33–34“Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death, and will deliver him to the Gentiles.
- Ps 129:3The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.
- Heb 11:36Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.
- 1 Pet 2:24who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
- 2 Cor 11:24Five times from the Jews I received forty stripes minus one.
- Acts 22:24–25the commanding officer commanded him to be brought into the barracks, ordering him to be examined by scourging, that he might know for what crime they shouted against him like that.
- Acts 16:22–23The multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates tore their clothes off of them, and commanded them to be beaten with rods.
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