7 Bible Verses about Scourging

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Acts 22:24

the Tribune ordered him to be brought into the barracks, and be examined by flogging, in order to ascertain the reason why they thus cried out against him.

Acts 22:25

But, when they had tied him up with the straps, Paul said to the Captain who stood by, "Does the Law permit you to flog a Roman citizen--and one too who is uncondemned?"

John 19:1-6

Then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. And the soldiers, twisting twigs of thorn into a wreath, put it on His head, and threw round Him a crimson cloak. Then they began to march up to Him, saying in a mocking voice, "Hail King of the Jews!" And they struck Him with the palms of their hands.read more.
Once more Pilate came out and said to the Jews, "See, I am bringing him out to you to let you clearly understand that I find no crime in him." So Jesus came out, wearing the wreath of thorns and the crimson cloak. And Pilate said to them, "See, there is the man." As soon then as the High Priests and the officers saw Him, they shouted "To the cross! To the cross!" "Take him yourselves and crucify him," said Pilate; "for I, at any rate, find no crime in him."

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Punishment » Minor offenses » Punishable by » Scourging

Acts 22:24

the Tribune ordered him to be brought into the barracks, and be examined by flogging, in order to ascertain the reason why they thus cried out against him.

Acts 22:29

So the men who had been on the point of putting him under torture immediately left him. And the Tribune, too, was frightened when he learnt that Paul was a Roman citizen, for he had had him bound.

Punishments » Scourging

Acts 22:24

the Tribune ordered him to be brought into the barracks, and be examined by flogging, in order to ascertain the reason why they thus cried out against him.

Punishments » Secondary kinds of » Scourging

Scourging » Instances of » Of jesus

Matthew 20:19

and hand Him over to the Gentiles to be made sport of and scourged and crucified; and on the third day He will be raised to life."

Scourging » Instances of » Of paul

Acts 21:32

He instantly sent for a few soldiers and their officers, and came down among the people with all speed. At the sight of the Tribune and the troops they ceased beating Paul.

Acts 22:24

the Tribune ordered him to be brought into the barracks, and be examined by flogging, in order to ascertain the reason why they thus cried out against him.

2 Corinthians 11:24-25

From the Jews I five times have received forty lashes all but one. Three times I have been beaten with Roman rods, once I have been stoned, three times I have been shipwrecked, once for full four and twenty hours I was floating on the open sea.

Scourging » Prescribed in the mosaic law for committing the sin of fornication

Scourging » Figurative » Of the oppressions of rulers

Scourging » Instances of » Of sosthenes

Acts 18:17

Then the people all set upon Sosthenes, the Warden of the synagogue, and beat him severely in front of the court. Gallio did not concern himself in the least about this.

Scourging » Instances of » Of paul and silas

Acts 16:23

and, after severely flogging them, they threw them into jail and bade the jailer keep them safely.

Scourging » Figurative » Of the evil tongue

Scourging » Foretold by jesus as a persecution of future Christians

Scourging » Of servants could be avenged

Scourging » Fatal

Scourging » Prescribed for other offenses

Scourging » 40 stripes

The Nation » Punishment » Scourging

Acts 22:24

the Tribune ordered him to be brought into the barracks, and be examined by flogging, in order to ascertain the reason why they thus cried out against him.

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