Ep. 129: The guards mock Jesus

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LUKE 22:63-65

Edersheim would have been in tears as he recounts the shameful episode:

‘It was after this meeting of the Sanhedrists had broken up, that the revolting insults and injuries were perpetrated on him by the guards and servants of Caiaphas. All now rose in combined rebellion against the Perfect Man. These insults, taunts, and blows which fell upon that lonely Sufferer, not defenceless, but undefending, not vanquished, but uncontending, not helpless, but majestic in voluntary self-submission for the highest purpose of love. So far as recorded, not a word escaped his Lips; not a complaint, nor murmur; nor utterance of indignant rebuke, nor sharp cry of deeply sensitive, pained nature. We have seen that, when Caiaphas and the Sanhedrists left the chamber, Jesus was left to the unrestrained licence of the attendants. Even the Jewish Law had it, that no ‘prolonged death’ (Mithah Arikhta) might be inflicted and that he who was condemned to death was not to be previously scourged. At last, they were weary of insult and smiting and the Sufferer was left alone, perhaps in the covered gallery, or at one of the windows that overlooked the court below.’

This is an extract from the book, Jesus : Life and Times, available for £12 here (Finalist for Academic Book of the year at 2023 CRT awards)