Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.
Parallel translations
- WEB So Pilate then took Jesus, and flogged 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 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.
- Isa 50:6I 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.
- Matt 20:19And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.
- Luke 18:33And they shall scourge him, and put him to death: and the third day he shall rise again.
- Luke 23:16I will therefore chastise him, and release him.
- Matt 23:34Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
- Mark 15:15–20And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.
- Luke 23:23And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed.
- Matt 27:26–31Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
- Mark 10:33–34Saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles:
- Ps 129:3The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
- Heb 11:36And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
- 1 Pet 2:24Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
- 2 Cor 11:24Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.
- Acts 22:24–25The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him.
- Acts 16:22–23And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them.
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