When Paul was order bound with straps by the tribune in Jerusalem for the apostle to be interrogated under the scourge, Paul objected on the grounds of his Roman citizenship and was freed. Because of its brutality flagellation was feared: it produced deep wounds and could even lead to death. Unlike Jewish law, which had a maximum of forty lashes, Roman law did not provide for limits.
He also confirms that scourging was a prelude to crucifixion. But intensity of the scourging of Jesus is unknown. The gospels dedicate almost nothing to this event and some claim it was not even significant enough to be described. And yet despite the scarcity of information, modern commentaries on the Passion and Biblical dictionaries provide a detailed description of the scourge, and even drawings.
But interest in the scourge itself has not abated. In Vincent Ferrer suggested Jesus was scourged with switches of thorns and brambles, then by whips with spiked tips, and finally by chains with hooks at the ends. The belief that these three types of scourges were used became widespread but there is no evidence that these really existed in ancient Rome at the time of Jesus.
The Shroud of Turin was critical. It bears the image of a tortured man whose lacerations clearly resemble those the crucified Jesus would have had. From the sixteenth century onward various authors sharing the belief that the Shroud belonged to Jesus of Nazareth have tried to identify the shape of the scourge from the shape of those marks. This gave rise to a search for an artifact that could have caused wounds. The first printed book dedicated to the marks on the Shroud of Turin dates to and was written by Alfonso Paleotti, archbishop of Bologna.
Daniele Mallonio later translated Paleotti into Latin and provided a description of the scourge, deduced from the marks on the Shroud. He was also familiar with the Revelations of St. Bridget of Sweden — CE , who described a corded scourge with spikes. Mallonio consulted the famous treatise De Cruce by Justus Lipsius for historical information.
But if strung on the cords of a scourge, these small bones rendered terrible blows on a victim. But when Lipsius translated into Latin the Greek passages containing the descriptions of that kind of scourge, he used the recent word taxillatum from taxillus , i. Unfortunately, many later authors thus circulated the false idea that the Romans actually had something called flagrum taxillatum , a scourge of little cubes.
So what was then the exact shape of the flagrum of Jesus? Mallonio reported the existence of a fragment preserved in Rome in the church of Santa Maria in Via Lata. I went looking for this fragment: it is only a tiny piece of thin chain with a twisted nail attached, encased in a cross-reliquary together with other strange relics. This is not to suggest that God does not heal our sickness but it is important to underscore the biblical significance of the atoning works of Christ and to put them into their appropriate theological perspective.
Kelsi Mazzotta I don't believe that Pilate was thinking of the amount of known diseases when he sentenced Jesus. That's symbolic conjecture. Scripture doesn't say how many stripes Jesus received. It was called 40 lashes minus one because it was assumed that 40 or more lashes would kill someone. They were whipped with a cat of nine tails a whip with nine lashings embedded with bits of metal or bone.
In Roman times, it was deemed that if a flogger were to appropriately administer a punishment, he should be able to kill a man with forty lashes. Depending on the circumstances, if he failed to kill a man in forty lashes, the flogger would face death.
This was to insure that the flogger would not hold back in meting out the punishment. Using this same warped twisted logic, the Romans determined that 39 lashes shouldn't kill a person so that was the most you could give a person, without a sentence of death by flogging.
Flogging is the only punishment mentioned in the Bible as a standard punishment. The maximum number of strokes to be administered in any one case is 40 Deut. The understanding is that the number of strokes was to be determined in each individual case according to the gravity of the offense and the limit was to prevent death by flogging. The only mention of Jesus being flogged is from Matthew The netbible.
BDAG s. The Roman law had no limit. When their prisoners fell down, the Romans picked them up. Then they began to beat them again. Sometimes they killed their prisoners like this. The prisoners' backs became like a field that a farmer has ploughed. Pieces of skin hung from their backs. The Romans had decided that Jesus must die.
Now they beat him, by Roman law. The soldiers also made cruel jokes about Jesus. They made him a crown out of pieces of sharp branches.
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