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They began to salute him, "Hail, King of the Jews!"
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A Parody of "Hail, Caesar!"
Commentators explain that the soldiers' salute was a deliberate and cruel parody of the formal Roman greeting, "Hail, Emperor Caesar!" They were treating Jesus's claim to kingship as a "great joke," as one scholar puts it, mocking him with the highest form of political address they knew, but in a context of utter humiliation.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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19th Century
Baptist
And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified. And …
The soldiers thought it was a great joke that this gentle Jew claimed to be a king. So they took a purple robe, a symbol of royalty, and threw it a…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And began to salute him, hail, king of the Jews ! ] In a mock way, wishing him long life and prosperity, as if he wa…
Christ met death in its greatest terror. It was the death reserved for the most vile criminals. Therefore, the cross and the shame are linked. God …
