Stations in the Street - Station 4

“But if I spoke the truth, why did you strike me?” John 18:23

27 Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company of soldiers around him. 28 They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, 29 and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand. Then they knelt in front of him and mocked him. “Hail, king of the Jews!” they said. 30 They spit on him, and took the staff and struck him on the head again and again. 31 After they had mocked him, they took off the robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him away to crucify him.
Matthew 27:27 - 31

What brings on our mockery?

These soldiers brutalize Jesus.
Possibly their common response to jewish prisoners.
Imagine the Son of God being brutalized by men.
Imagine the Son of God being tortured by the empire.

“What new mystery is this?
What blessed backwardness?
The Immeasurable one is held and does not resist!
Struck by wicked words and foolish fists of senseless men
The Almighty One does not defend!”