And they weren't the little thorns that we think of, as on roses.  They
were long, something like 3 inches long.

At 12:44 PM 12/20/03 -0600, you wrote:
>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

John

Pity the archaeologist - the years just crypt up on
him.<*>