O, what a Savior..... It is at this point that Jesus suffers a severe physical beating. During a flogging, a victim was tied to a post, leaving his back entirely exposed. The Romans used a whip, called a flagrum or flagellum which consisted of small pieces of bone and metal attached to a number of leather strands. The number of strikes is not recorded in the gospels. The number of blows in Jewish law was set in Deuteronomy 25:3 at forty, but later reduced to 39 to prevent excessive blows by a counting error. The victim often died from the beating. (39 hits were believed to bring the criminal to one from death.) Roman law did not put any limits on the number of blows given. During the flogging, the skin was stripped from the back, exposing a bloody mass of muscle and bone (hamburger : Metherall). Extreme blood loss occurred from this beating, weakening the victim. perhaps to the point of being unconscious.~Dr. David Teresaka, M.D.
Posted on: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 20:20:51 +0000
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