Actually most Christians tend to gloss over the details of the crucifixion.
I use to have info on the details of all Christ went through and it is
unimaginable the details like getting beat with a club like a baseball bat,
bent over and whipped as you say Paul, crown of thorns driven into his
skull and etc. We, as sighted people saw a clean, unbruised, un bled, Jesus
hanging with white cloth covering the mid area, quite a different image
than what actually occurred. There is no mention of the physical suffering
that goes on such as suffocation due to the positioning of the person on
the cross and etc.
Brad
At 12/20/2003 on Saturday, you wrote:
>Hey, Matt
>
>The word is scourged s c o u r g e d. It means whipped and beaten. We're
>pretty sure of exactly what happened because of so much historical evidence
>of it being done to others. From the best we can gather, they chained him
>by His wrists to a low pillar or post to expose his back, stripped Him down,
>then whipped him with a "cat-o-nine-tails", a whip made of long, leather
>strips with bits of metal in the ends that tore His back to shreds and made
>Him bleed profusely. That's why He became so weak later that He stumbled
>with the cross, because He'd already lost so much blood between the whipping
>and the thorns in His scalp. Many folks died just from the scourging. Then
>they threw a purple robe on His back (so imagine that pain on top of the
>other) and at the cross they pulled the robe, which had obviously clotted to
>His back, off again to leave Him naked on the cross for public humiliation.
>And it wasn't like the polite artists show with his underwear on. He was
>completely naked in public and in a culture where, for a religious Jew,
>that was unthinkable.
>
>Paul
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Matt" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 10:02 PM
>Subject: scurge scurged?
>
>
> > Hi, what does the word scurge mean?
> > It says pilot scurged jesus and then they put the crown of thorns on his
> > head?
> >
> > Matt
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