And the soldiers led him away inside the palace (that is, the governor's headquarters), and they called together the whole battalion.
And they clothed him in a purple cloak, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on him. And they began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
And they were striking his head with a reed and spitting on him and kneeling down in homage to him.
And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes on him.
And they led him out to crucify him.
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| Christ Mocked by Soldiers, Roualt (1932) |
“See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief
priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and deliver him over to the Gentiles. And they will mock him and spit on him, and flog him and kill him. And after three days he will rise.”
priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and deliver him over to the Gentiles. And they will mock him and spit on him, and flog him and kill him. And after three days he will rise.”
When I read how they mocked Jesus, I can’t help but think about Psalm 1:1-2...
Blessed is the man
who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in the way of sinners,
nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
but his delight is in the law of the Lord,
and on his law he meditates day and night.
who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in the way of sinners,
nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
but his delight is in the law of the Lord,
and on his law he meditates day and night.
We are not to be among the mockers…and yet at times, I wonder if our hypocrisy and stiff-necked responses to his claims don’t put us there!
They dressed him in purple, as a king and mocked him—for if he was indeed a king it was only a king of the Jews, which in the eyes of the Roman soldiers was not worthy of any true honor. [On a side note, the color purple, was present in the original Tent of Meeting (Exodus 26) where God gave very specific instructions. for its construction. The veil was made of blue, red, and purple yarns—blue above (the color of divinity), red below (the color of man), and purple in the middle (the color of the Messiah, our great high priest who was both God and man Hebrews 2:14).] The robe was on his shredded back (from the scourging) just long enough for it to stick and start to scab…then they tore it off like a huge Band-Aid.
The scoffers of David’s time, the mockers of the passion of Christ, and the situation will be the same in the last days, as Peter would write,
“This is now the second letter that I am writing to you, beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder, that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles, knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming?” (2 Peter 3:1-4)
Will we see his amazing love poured out for us or will we settle for scoffing?
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