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Pictured above: Detail from Flagellation by Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi). c. 1607. Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples.
Before being sentenced to die, the soldiers took Jesus to be beaten and humiliated. The virtue of fortitude is associated with this mystery.
- Then the soldiers of the cohort, their tribune, and the Jewish guards arrested Jesus and bound him. They led him
first to Annas, the father-in-law of Caiaphas who was high priest that year.(John 18:12–13)
- [In the high priest's courtyard,] The Lord turned around and looked at Peter, and Peter remembered the words that the Lord had spoken to him. "Before
the cock crows today you will deny me three times." [Peter] went out and wept bitterly. (Luke 22:61–62)
- At daybreak all the chief priests and the elders of the people took formal action against Jesus to put him to
death. They bound him and led him away to be handed over to the procurator Pilate. (Matthew 27:1–2)
- "Are you the king of the Jews?" [Pilate] asked [Jesus]. (John 18:33)
- Jesus answered, "My kingdom does not belong to this world." (John 18:36)
- At this Pilate said to him, "So then, you are a king?" Jesus replied, "It is you who say I am a king. The reason I was born, the reason why I came
into the world, is to testify to the truth. Anyone committed to the truth hears my voice."
(John 18:37)
- Pilate reported to the chief priests and the crowds, "I do not find a case against this man." (Luke 23:4)
- But they demanded with loud cries that he be crucified, and their shouts increased in violence. (Luke 23:23)
- Pilate's next move was to take Jesus and have him scourged. (John 19:1)
- Though he was harshly treated, he submitted and opened not his mouth; like a lamb led to the slaughter. (Isaiah 53:7)
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