Matthew 27:27–32
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
It has rituals, vestments, and a confession of faith. We are witnessing that liturgy here, in the Praetorium. This is not simply a case of soldiers getting out of hand, a bit of barracks bullying. When the kingdom of man comes face to face with the King of heaven, its instinctive and immediate reaction is to mock Him. The world sees a Galilean peasant, beaten and bloody, and decides to play a game. They will make Him a king, but their kind of king. They dress Him in the symbols of power, a robe, a crown, a scepter, but they make sure each one is an insult. A circlet of thorns for a diadem of gold. What they do not realize, in their blind and brutal game, is that they are officiating at the most significant coronation in the history of the world.