Who His Own Self Bore Our Sins

 "And the chief priests and all the council sought for witness against Jesus to put him to death; and found none. For many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together." - Mark 14:55-56 KJV 

"And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him, Prophesy: and the servants did strike him with the palms of their hands." - Mark 14:65 KJV

The next morning, they delivered Jesus to Pilate. (Mark 15:1).

"Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him." - John 19:1 KJV

The number of stripes allowed by Jewish law was forty (Deut. 25:3). Scourging by the Romans, however, had no legal limit to the number of blows.

Their leather whips would be knotted with sharp pieces of metal designed to tear the flesh from the muscles, leaving deep lacerations and the loss of much blood. The victim of Roman scourging would be left "half-dead," while death was often the result.

"I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting." - Isaiah 50:6

"The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows." - Psalm 129:3

"As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:" - Isaiah 52:14 KJV

"But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed." - Isaiah 53:5

Jesus not only had the halfway death of scourging, but to fulfill prophecy, He went on to crucifixion. (Psalm 22:16, Zechariah 12:10, John 3:14).

"Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:" - Galatians 3:13 (Deuteronomy 21:23)

"And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified." - Mark 15:15 KJV

"Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed." - 1 Peter 2:24 (Acts 2:38).