2 Kings 19:1-37; Jeremiah 52:1-34; 1 Timothy 3:1-16
When they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head. Matthew 27:29
One night I fell face down from my bed, suffered a deep gash above one eyebrow and cuts on my forehead. Blood oozed out freely because of the blood-thinning pills I took. My face was bloody and later turned purple. I looked terrible. What did the Lord’s face look like when a crown of thorns was crushed repeatedly into His brow with a reed and His face was struck? Blood streamed down and His appearance was so disfigured that He did not look like a man (Isa. 52:14a). He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him. —K. C. Ung
Man of Sorrows! what a name, for the Son of God, who came;
Ruined sinners to reclaim. Hallelujah! What a Saviour! —Philip P. Bliss