Thematic Bible: Punishable by


Thematic Bible



By the wounds of the rod evil is taken away, and blows make clean the deepest parts of the body.

Rods are being made ready for the man of pride, and blows for the back of the foolish.

And Pilate, desiring to do what was pleasing to the people, let Barabbas go free, and gave up Jesus, when he had been whipped, to be put to death on the cross.

The chief captain gave orders for him to be taken into the army building, saying that he would put him to the test by whipping, so that he might have knowledge of the reason why they were crying out so violently against him.

Then those who were about to put him to the test went away: and the chief captain was in fear, seeing that he was a Roman, and that he had put chains on him.

If any man has sex relations with a servant-woman who has given her word to be married to a man, and has not been made free for a price or in any other way, the thing will be looked into; but they will not be put to death because she was not a free woman.



Then the responsible men of the town are to give the man his punishment;

And if the wrongdoer is to undergo punishment by whipping, the judge will give orders for him to go down on his face and be whipped before him, the number of the blows being in relation to his crime. He may be given forty blows, not more; for if more are given, your brother may be shamed before you.

A word of protest goes deeper into one who has sense than a hundred blows into a foolish man.

And so I will give him punishment and let him go.


And Joseph's master took him and put him in prison, in the place where the king's prisoners were kept in chains, and he was there in the prison-house.


Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain