Rejected by His disciples, condemned by the council, and denied by Peter. Jesus now faces the Roman authorities. Pilate first had Jesus scourged. This was a more severe punishment than a flogging or beating. The prisoner was beaten with a whip fashioned of strips of leather with sharp pieces of bone and metal attached, which would rip and tear the skin .
Crucifixion was a gruesome, humiliating and excruciating form of execution. It frequently produced a coma prior to death, but Jesus was in control of His faculties until the moment when He died.
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