9 Bible Verses about Scourging

Most Relevant Verses

Job 5:21

He will keep you safe from the evil tongue; and you will have no fear of wasting when it comes.

Mark 15:15

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.

Acts 22:24

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.

Deuteronomy 25:2-3

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.

Acts 22:25

And when they had put leather bands round him, Paul said to the captain who was present, Is it the law for you to give blows to a man who is a Roman and has not been judged?

John 19:1-6

Then Pilate took Jesus and had him whipped with cords. And the men of the army made a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they put a purple robe on him. And they kept coming and saying, Long life to the King of the Jews! And they gave him blows with their hands.read more.
And Pilate went out again and said to them, See, I let him come out to you to make it clear to you that I see no wrong in him. Then Jesus came out with the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And Pilate said to them, Here is the man! So when the chief priests and the police saw him they gave a loud cry, To the cross! to the cross! Pilate said to them, Take him yourselves and put him on the cross: I see no crime in him.

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Punishment » Minor offenses » Punishable by » Scourging

Proverbs 20:30

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

Mark 15:15

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.

Acts 22:24

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.

Acts 22:29

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.

Punishments » Scourging

Mark 15:15

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.

Acts 22:24

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.

Punishments » Secondary kinds of » Scourging

Deuteronomy 25:2-3

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.

Scourging » Instances of » Of jesus

Matthew 20:19

And will give him up to the Gentiles to be made sport of and to be whipped and to be put to death on the cross: and the third day he will come back again from the dead.

Mark 15:15

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.

Scourging » Instances of » Of paul

Acts 21:32

And straight away he took some armed men and went quickly down to them: and the Jews, seeing them, gave no more blows to Paul.

Acts 22:24

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.

2 Corinthians 11:24-25

Five times the Jews gave me forty blows but one. Three times I was whipped with rods, once I was stoned, three times the ship I was in came to destruction at sea, a night and a day I have been in the water;

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

Leviticus 19:20

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.

Deuteronomy 22:18

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

Scourging » Figurative » Of the oppressions of rulers

1 Kings 12:11

If my father put a hard yoke on you, I will make it harder: my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give you blows with snakes.

Scourging » Instances of » Of sosthenes

Acts 18:17

And they all made an attack on Sosthenes, the ruler of the Synagogue, and gave him blows before the judge's seat; but Gallio gave no attention to these things.

Scourging » Instances of » Of paul and silas

Acts 16:23

And when they had given them a great number of blows, they put them in prison, giving orders to the keeper of the prison to keep them safely:

Scourging » Figurative » Of the evil tongue

Job 5:21

He will keep you safe from the evil tongue; and you will have no fear of wasting when it comes.

Scourging » Foretold by jesus as a persecution of future Christians

Scourging » Of servants could be avenged

Exodus 21:20

If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant blows with a rod, causing death, he is certainly to undergo punishment.

Scourging » Fatal

Job 9:23

If death comes suddenly through disease, he makes sport of the fate of those who have done no wrong.

Scourging » Prescribed for other offenses

Deuteronomy 25:2

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.

Scourging » 40 stripes

Deuteronomy 25:3

He may be given forty blows, not more; for if more are given, your brother may be shamed before you.

The Nation » Punishment » Scourging

Mark 15:15

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.

Acts 22:24

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.

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