John 19:1-16
Jesus Sentenced to be Crucified
1Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. 2The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe 3and went up to him again and again, saying, "Hail, king of the Jews!" And they struck him in the face.
4Once more Pilate came out and said to the Jews, "Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him." 5When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, "Here is the man!"
6As soon as the chief priests and their officials saw him, they shouted, "Crucify! Crucify!"
But Pilate answered, "You take him and crucify him. As for me, I find no basis for a charge against him."
7The Jews insisted, "We have a law, and according to that law he must die, because he claimed to be the Son of God."
8When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid, 9and he went back inside the palace. "Where do you come from?" he asked Jesus, but Jesus gave him no answer. 10"Do you refuse to speak to me?" Pilate said. "Don't you realize I have power either to free you or to crucify you?"
11Jesus answered, "You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin."
12From then on, Pilate tried to set Jesus free, but the Jews kept shouting, "If you let this man go, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar."
13When Pilate heard this, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judge's seat at a place known as the Stone Pavement (which in Aramaic is Gabbatha). 14It was the day of Preparation of Passover Week, about the sixth hour.
"Here is your king," Pilate said to the Jews.
15But they shouted, "Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!"
"Shall I crucify your king?" Pilate asked.
"We have no king but Caesar," the chief priests answered.
16Finally Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified.
Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged...The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head...They clothed Him in a purple robe and went up to Him again and again, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" And they struck Him in the face...They tortured Him...Once more Pilate came out and said to the Jews, "Look, I am bringing Him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against Him."...When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, "Here is the Man!"...At that time in the Passion of Our Christ He would have been bleeding and wounded...
Jesus was in a way a Quiet Rebel...And Rebels have scars that come with being different...His scars were not ugly, no far from it...His scars were for us...His scars were for our sins...His scars would be beautiful, because those scars saved us...Jesus has Glorious Wounds for us...All this flogging and torture was taken for us, out of His LOVE for us...So scars, suffering, and wounds in some cases are a good thing....And Pilate was incorrect, when he said, "Here is the Man.", He is more than a Man, much more...