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The third sorrowful mystery is the crowning of thorns.

Matthew chapter 27 versus 27 through 31.

Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the Praetorium, and they gathered the whole battalion before him. And they stripped him and put a scarlet robe upon him and plating a crown

of thorns. They put it on his head and put a reed in his right hand. And kneeling before him,

they mocked him, saying, Hail king of the Jews. And they spat upon him

and took the reed and struck him on the head. And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe

and put his own clothes on him and led him away to crucify him.

Now Jesus' trial before Pilate, his condemnation, scourging, and crucifixion.

These are horrible, but ordinary parts of Roman law and Roman punishment.

Jesus being crowned with thorns and mocked was a unique evil the Roman soldiers took upon themselves to do in mockery of our Lord. It says that Jesus was taken before a whole battalion, so that's up to 600 soldiers. So there's a large group of Roman soldiers

there gathered. They put upon him a scarlet robe, which was worn by Roman military or high-ranking

officials. Of course, they put upon his head a crown, a sign of kingship. They put a reed in his hand, imitating a king's scepter.

And they mock him saying, hail king of the Jews.

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