The Crown Of Thorns And The Purple Robe

Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe and went up to him again and again, saying, “Hail, king of the Jews!” And they slapped him in the face.

Once more Pilate came out and said to the Jews gathered there, “Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him.” When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”

As soon as the chief priests and their officials saw him, they shouted, “Crucify! Crucify!”

But Pilate answered, “You take him and crucify him. As for me, I find no basis for a charge against him.”

The Jewish leaders insisted, “We have a law, and according to that law he must die, because he claimed to be the Son of God.”

When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid,

John 19:1-8

The Crown Jewels are guarded in the Tower of London…And it is not just one crown. Each one is jeweled…There is the coronation crown, the state crown or coronet crown, and there is the consort crown worn by the wife or husband of the monarch.

The King of heaven, who was worthy of the greatest crown and the highest honor, wore a very different crown…In the hours of humiliation and suffering that Jesus experienced before He was crucified, He wore a crown which had been twisted onto His head…It was a crown of thorns.

Our Savior wore that crown for us, bearing our sin and shame. The one who deserved the best, took the worst for us.

Without the cross, there could be no crown.

Our Daily Bread – June 10, 2014