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Scripture. I asked myself, “How much more be shocked and be moved with pity in his
did the Lord Jesus suffer physically on the heart with this description, I don’t know
cross just to redeem us from our sins?” what kind of a human being one can be.

This is the Biblical description of the ● (King James Version) “As many were
suffering of Christ on the cross: astonied at thee; his visage was so marred
Before Jesus was crucified, before He was more than any man, and his form more
scourged he was brutally beaten by the than the sons of men.”
mob. Let us read Mark 14:65, “And some
began to spit at Him, and to blindfold Him, ● (New American Standard Version) “His
and to beat Him with their fists, and to say to appearance was marred more than any
Him, “Prophesy!” And the officers received man, and His form more than the sons of
Him with slaps in the face.” According to men.”
Isaiah 50:6, it says, “People pluck out
His beard while spitting on His face.” ● (New International Version) “His appear-
ance was so disfigured beyond that of any
Mark 15:15-20: “And wishing to satisfy man and His form marred beyond human
the multitude, Pilate released Barabas for likeness.”
them, and after having Jesus SCOURGED,
he delivered Him to be crucified. And the ● (Today’s English Version) “HE HARDLY
soldiers took Him away into the palace LOOKED HUMAN.”
(that is, the Praetorium), and they called
together the whole Roman cohort. And Any picture you will see or any idol you see
they dressed Him up in purple, and after of Christ’s crucifixion is not the real picture.
weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on It is a lie. The Bible clearly says that
Him; and they began to acclaim Him, “Hail, Jesus’ face was so disfigured that He
King of the Jews!” And they kept beating hardly looked human.
His head with a reed, and spitting at Him,
and kneeling and bowing before Him. And Exhausted from being beaten and from
after they had mocked Him, they took the scourging, the crown of thorns that
purple off Him, and put His garments on the tormentors put on him pierced
Him. And they led Him out to crucify Him.” through His head that blood was oozing
down His face. Worn out of His strength
To be scourged under the Roman method they pressed Simon of Cyrene, a pas-
the victim was to be stripped, stretched ser-by to help Jesus carry the cross.
with cords or thongs on a frame, and
beaten with rods or flagellum. Jesus The Bible says He was naked. (Mark
was scourged with whips made of leath- 15:24), “They took His garments and
er that had sharp bones or glass at divided up among themselves casting lots
each end of each tongs. While it striped for them to decide what each should take.”
across Jesus, they pulled it hard leaving Jesus was crucified in a public place. He
strips of wounds to the bare body of the was DISPLAYED NAKED to the public to
Lord. Forty lashes was the maximum. be humiliated. He was nailed to the cross
hanging there long enough that to catch
Before He was scourged with a flagellum, His breath, He needed to push upward
His face was already swollen that He hardly with His feet that were also nailed to the
looked human. Let us read Isaiah 52:14 wood. His weight, as a regular man may
and the more you compare different trans- weigh between 180 to 200 pounds. He was
lations, the Lord’s appearance becomes so tired and out of strength that naturally
vivid and horrifying. If anyone who will not His weight would pull Him down. He would
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