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

For those of you who would like to participate, we will be taking communion together at the end of today's post.

So you may want to pause your equipment or your reading and get some elements, bread and juice or wine ready.

The title of our post today, Passion Week, Good Friday.

Today is 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 is at times called the good book holy friday indeed from gethsemini messiah was led to a mock trial after which he was beaten mercilessly with a cat of nine tails. This procedure was so brutal

that some victims didn't survive it. The leather cords tipped with sharp metal tore at the flesh

of the victim ripping off pieces of flesh. The whip, with its nine cords,

delivered 39 times, made a total of 351 lashes. This was barbaric and brutal, not only lacerating the back, but the cords wrapped around to the front of the victim's body, including the face.

It is hard to describe this lashing without being too graphic for most readers.

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 in his face. To mock him as the king of the Jews,

a crown made of thorns, was placed on his head and pressed into his skin, causing great pain

and more loss of blood.

When the ordeal was finished,

Jesus was so mangled and covered with spittle and blood

that he literally was unrecognizable.

Isaiah said, Isaiah 5214 from the expanded Bible,

many people were shocked, astonished, appalled when they saw him.

His appearance was so damaged, disfigured, marred. He did not look like a man. His form was so changed, they could barely tell he was human.

The added punishments and torture, much more than the typical victim of crucifixion,

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