1 Chronicles 6:1-81; Ezekiel 8:1-9:11; John 2:1-22
Then he released Barabbas to them; and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered Him to be crucified. Matthew 27:26 NKJV
The divine Creator responsible for the marvels of the human spine gave His own back to the smiters (Isa. 50:6). As a young man travelling with the pilgrims to Jerusalem, did He join in singing: “The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows” (Ps. 129:3). Yet He accepted, without resistance, the excruciatingly painful scourging of His back. He died that we might be free. —Peter Ramsay
His love my heart has captive made,
His captive would I be,
For He was bound, and scourged and died,
My captive soul to free. —Charles Wesley