Édouard Manet, ca. 1864-1865
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Compare John 19:2-3
The story is familiar to us, and we often pass over it without really permitting it to enter fully into our minds. But this cruel mockery of a man who has already been condemned to death, and who will soon die in one of the most agonizing possible ways, is shocking and horrific. Humanity at its most inhumane.
And the fact that it was being done to a perfectly innocent man — and, what is more, to their real king, to the only person on the planet who had a fully legitimate claim on their humble submission and reverence — makes it more appalling yet.
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