Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15.

The title of today's post is Holy Friday.

And I want to remind you we will be taking communion together at the end of today's post.

You want to participate.

You may want to pause your recording or

you're reading now and get your elements ready. Some juice, wine, whatever you prefer, a cracker,

bread. And we will do so, as I said, together in just a few minutes. Once again, the title of today's post is Holy Friday.

Good Friday called this because of an ancient usage of the word good as a synonym for holy

in the same way that the Holy Bible was called the Good Book. Holy Friday, Good Friday,

Holy Friday indeed. From Gethsemini, Messiah was led to a mock trial, after which he was beaten

mercilessly with the cat of nine tails.

This procedure was so brutal that some recipients did not survive it.

The leather cords tipped with sharp metal, tore at the flesh of the victim, not only cutting, but ripping off pieces of flesh.

The beating with its nine cords, delivered 39 times, made a total of 351 lashes.

This was barbaric, brutal, not only lacerating the back, but wrapping around to the

front of the victim's body, including the face. It's hard to describe this lashing without being

too graphic for most readers or listeners. The depiction of the

horrific damage in the Passion movie is no exaggeration. Suffice it to say that when finished,

the victim was often unrecognizable.

The soldiers also beat Christ with their fists,

spat on his face.

To mock him as the king of the Jews,

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