If I were to tell you the physical sufferings Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for our salvation would you believe? If you knew, would you care?
- “Be it known that the number of armed soldiers were 150
- those who trailed Me while I was bound were 23
- The executioners of justice were 83
- the blows received on My head were 150
- those on My stomach, 108
- kicks on My shoulders, 80
- I was led, bound with cords, by the hair, 24 times;
- spits in the face were 180;
- I was beaten on the body, 6666 times;
- beaten on the head, 110 times.
- I was roughly pushed, and at 12 o’clock was lifted up by the hair;
- pricked with thorns and pulled by the beard, 23 times
- received 20 wounds on the head;
- thorns of marine junks, 72;
- pricks of thorns in the head, 110;
- mortal thorns in the forehead, 3.
- I was afterwards flogged and dressed as a mocked king;
- wounds in the body, 1000.
- The soldiers who led Me to Calvary were 608;
- Those who watched Me were 3,
- and those who mocked Me 1008;
- The drops of blood which I lost were 28,430.”
