Jesus Reproached by Soldiers
Ronald Vanoverloop provides an expository meditation on Matthew 27:27-31, examining Christ's suffering and mockery by Roman soldiers. The article develops the theological significance of Jesus' passion as the substitute bearer of divine wrath for the elect, exploring both the direct suffering of God's judgment and the indirect suffering through human reproach and physical torment. This devotional-exegetical piece emphasizes substitutionary atonement and the sufficiency of Christ's sacrifice for sin.
"Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers. And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe. And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews! And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head. And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him,...
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