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24 When Pilate saw that he could not prevail at all, but rather that a1 tumult was rising, he atook water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this2 just Person. You see to it.”  
25 And all the people answered and said, a“His blood be on us and on our children.”  
26 Then he released Barabbas to them; and when ahe had scourged Jesus, he delivered Him to be crucified.  

The Soldiers Mock Jesus

27 aThen the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the1 Praetorium and gathered the whole garrison around Him.  
28 And they astripped Him and bput a scarlet robe on Him.  
29 aWhen they had1 twisted a crown of thorns, they put it on His head, and a reed in His right hand. And they bowed the knee before Him and mocked Him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”  
30 Then athey spat on Him, and took the reed and struck Him on the head.  
31 And when they had mocked Him, they took the robe off Him, put His own clothes on Him, aand led Him away to be crucified.  

The King on a Cross

32 aNow as they came out, bthey found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name. Him they compelled to bear His cross.  
33 aAnd when they had come to a place called Golgotha, that is to say, Place of a Skull,  
34 athey gave Him1 sour wine mingled with gall to drink. But when He had tasted it, He would not drink.  
35 aThen they crucified Him, and divided His garments, casting lots,1 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet:
b“They divided My garments among them,
And for My clothing they cast lots.”  
36 aSitting down, they kept watch over Him there.  
37 And they aput up over His head the accusation written against Him: THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.  
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Matthew 27:26

Scourged Jesus - This is allowed to have been a very severe punishment of itself among the Romans, the flesh being generally cut by the whips used for this purpose: so the poet: -

- Horribili Sectere flagello .

"To be cut by the horrible whip."

Hor. Sat. I. 3. 119.

And sometimes it seems, they were whipped to death.

See the same poet, Sat. I. 2. 41.

\ri720 - Ille Flagellis Ad Mortem caesus

See also Horat. Epod. od. iv. v. 11.

It has been thought that Pilate might have spared this additional cruelty of whipping; but it appears that it was a common custom to scourge those criminals which were to be crucified, (see Josephus De Bello, lib. ii. c. 25), and lenity in Christ' s case is not to be allowed; he must take all the misery in full tale.

Delivered him to be crucified - Tacitus, the Roman historian, mentions the death of Christ in very remarkable terms: -

\ri720 Nero - quaesitissimis poenis is affecit, quos - vulgus Christianos appellabat. Auctor nominis ejus Christus, qui Tiberio imperitante, per Procuratorem Pontium Pilatum supplicio affectus erat . -

\ri720 \cf1 "Nero put those who commonly went by the name of Christians to the most exquisite tortures. The author of this name was Christ, who was capitally punished in the reign of Tiberius, by Pontius Pilate the Procurator."




Other Adam Clarke entries containing Matthew 27:26:

John 19:1
John 19:16

 

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