Mocked
AMEN PODCAST
Alex and Lokelani Wilson
5.0 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
What happens when the King of Kings gets publicly humiliated — and says nothing?
In Matthew 27:27-30, Jesus is stripped, mocked, crowned with thorns, and beaten by Roman soldiers. It's brutal. It's degrading. And it's the scene most of us want to skip over.
But this is where we see something we desperately need — the most powerful Being in the universe choosing silence over revenge. He could have destroyed every soldier in that room. He didn't. Not because He was weak. Because He trusted the Father's plan more than His own flesh wanted to fight back.
In this episode, Alex and Lokelani walk through what Jesus' response in that moment teaches us about suffering, pride, and what it actually looks like to have real hope — not the kind the world sells you, but the kind that quiets your soul even when everything around you is falling apart.
We also dig into Psalm 131 and 1 Peter 2:18-24 to unpack why staying in your lane isn't giving up — it's trusting God with the parts of life you can't control.
If you've ever been mocked for your faith, overlooked for doing the right thing, or just felt like the good you're doing isn't being seen — this one is for you.
📖 Scripture: Matthew 27:27-30 | Psalm 131 | 1 Peter 2:18-24
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| 0:00.0 | Christ is a perfect example of that. |
| 0:02.5 | As he's getting beat up, mocked, beard pulled out, punched, spit on, laughed at, what is he doing? |
| 0:08.3 | He's calmed and quieted his soul. |
| 0:10.5 | He doesn't say a word. |
| 0:12.7 | In an instant, he could kill all of them. |
| 0:15.0 | In an instant, he could flip it. |
| 0:17.4 | He could put, you know, say there's 12 Roman soldiers. |
| 0:20.1 | He could put 12 crown of thorns on top of their heads. And he can make the thorns out of metal. Just by thinking about it, he could do it. He could put them up on all on their own crosses. And certainly that's what they would have deserved. But Christ didn't do that. He even allows himself to be humiliated. |
| 0:39.0 | Why? |
| 0:40.0 | Great and marvelous things he did not involve himself with. |
| 0:43.2 | He didn't come to this earth to push people around and say, get in line. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm God, you better listen to me. |
| 0:48.9 | He humbled himself, taking on the form of a servant, and died obediently according to the |
| 0:53.4 | Father's plan. |
| 0:54.7 | Amen. |
| 0:55.9 | Aloha and welcome back to Amen podcast. |
| 0:58.3 | I'm Loe-Ilanie and I'm here with my husband Alex. |
| 1:01.0 | Today we're looking at Matthew chapter 27 versus 27 through 30 where Jesus is stripped, |
| 1:08.1 | mocked, beaten, and humiliated by Roman soldiers. This is a scene that most of us would |
| 1:14.2 | rather skip over. It's brutal, degrading, and if we're being honest, it doesn't exactly fit |
| 1:20.6 | the Instagram aesthetic version of Jesus that we sometimes prefer. But here's the thing. This passage shows us something we desperately need to |
| 1:30.1 | see. The King of Kings willingly enduring the worst kind of shame imaginable. While we spend so much |
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