“The floggings [are] for the sins of the world, because the sinner is flogged many times, according to the prophecy that says, "I gave my back to the whips." And so is fulfilled [the saying] that the righteous [will give himself] for sinners. The height of goodness is also fulfilled when "the righteous [suffered] for t…”
Apollinaris of Laodicea, 4th c. — FRAGMENT 138.34
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26Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
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24When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.
25Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
— Matthew 27:26 —
27Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers.
28And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe.